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WordPress 4.0.1 is now available. This is a critical security release for all previous versions and we strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately.

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Sites that support automatic background updates will be updated to WordPress 4.0.1 within the next few hours. If you are still on WordPress 3.9.2, 3.8.4, or 3.7.4, you will be updated to 3.9.3, 3.8.5, or 3.7.5 to keep everything secure. (We don’t support older versions, so please update to 4.0.1 for the latest and greatest.)

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WordPress versions 3.9.2 and earlier are affected by a critical cross-site scripting vulnerability, which could enable anonymous users to compromise a site. This was reported by Jouko Pynnonen. This issue does not affect version 4.0, but version 4.0.1 does address these eight security issues:

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Three cross-site scripting issues that a contributor or author could use to compromise a site. Discovered by Jon Cave, Robert Chapin, and John Blackbourn of the WordPress security team.

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A cross-site request forgery that could be used to trick a user into changing their password.

Already testing WordPress 4.1? The second beta is now available (zip) and it contains these security fixes. For more on 4.1, see the beta 1 announcement post.

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Explore your uploads in a beautiful, endless grid. A new details preview makes viewing and editing any amount of media in sequence a snap.

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The Ensemble

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We’ve also made some changes to some formatting functions, so if you see quotes curling in the wrong direction, please file a bug report.

Developers: Never fear, we haven’t forgotten you. There’s plenty for you, too – more on that in upcoming posts. In the meantime, check out the API for panels in the Customizer.

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Happy testing!

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After three weeks and more than 9 million downloads of WordPress 3.9, we’re pleased to announce that WordPress 3.9.1 is now available.

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This maintenance release fixes 34 bugs in 3.9, including numerous fixes for multisite networks, customizing widgets while previewing themes, and the updated visual editor. We’ve also made some improvements to the new audio/video playlists feature and made some adjustments to improve performance. For a full list of changes, consult the list of tickets and the changelog.

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If you are one of the millions already running WordPress 3.9, we’ve started rolling out automatic background updates for 3.9.1. For sites that support them, of course.

This plugin converts existing taxonomies into other taxonomies including Descriptors, Draws, and Distances used by Affinitomics to improve contextually, stickiness, seo, ranking and sorting capabilities within your site.\n

WordPress 4.0.1 is now available. This is a critical security release for all previous versions and we strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately. Sites that support automatic background updates will be updated to WordPress 4.0.1 within the next few hours. If you are still on WordPress 3.9.2, 3.8.4, or 3.7.4, you will be […] […]

Welcome, everyone, to WordPress 4.1 Beta 1! This software is still in development, so we don’t recommend you run it on a production site. Consider setting up a test site just to play with the new version. To test WordPress 4.1, try the WordPress Beta Tester plugin (you’ll want “bleeding edge nightlies”). Or you can […] […]

WordPress 3.0 introduced the ability for developers to register their own custom post types, enabling the software to be used more easily as a CMS. Custom post types ushered in a new era that allowed plugin developers to create and organize content in a more modular way.

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If you’ve ever tried to explain the concept of custom post types to someone, you may have found that they are more easily understood as custom content types. One thing that makes them confusing is the fact that are usually found floating around in the admin as top level menu items. Custom post types often have no context, which makes it difficult to know how they will appear on the frontend of your site.

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The Hierarchy plugin aims to solve this problem by moving custom post type admin menus into your pages list. Ordinarily, CPTs have their own menu items and the page menu structure doesn’t accurately reflect where the content is located, as shown in the example below.

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Custom post types are often used to power various sections of a website. Hierarchy works to improve the content editing workflow by intelligently including custom post type admin links within the page structure. In place of the Pages menu in the admin you’ll see a new Content menu, with custom post types, such as locations, people, and knowledgebase, added under their corresponding pages.

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Version 1.0 of the plugin includes Dashicons support and a button to add a new page. Each content type is displayed with contextual links within the hierarchical view of content. You can hover over an entry to display the edit, view, and taxonomy links.

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Hierarchy also includes a settings page that allows you to designate which custom post types will be included in the hierarchy display, as well as the ability to disable new entries and set the menu order. You can also elect to hide CPTs from the admin menu so that they only show up within the Hierarchy structure.

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When WordPress is used primarily as a CMS, pages often become the backbone for organizing the site’s content. This plugin addresses the lack of hierarchical structure in the admin. Jonathan Christopher, founder of SearchWP, wrote Hierarchy two years ago and has found it to be indispensable when creating websites for clients. He released version 1.0 of the plugin this week, which is essentially a complete rewrite of the previous version. If you’re looking to simplify CPT admin menus and streamline editing, check out Hierarchy on WordPress.org.

With the release of WordPress 4.0.1 less than 24 hours old, we’ve received reports of plugins breaking due to the update. For example, Cool Video Gallery is broken because of the way it handles custom shortcode attribute parsing instead of using the Shortcode API built into WordPress. Mika Epstein, who is a support forum volunteer, published a post in the support forum that explains the problem and the best way to fix it.

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If you’ve upgraded to WordPress 4.0.1 and a feature using shortcodes has broken (like a slider, or a visual composer), the reason is that code wasn’t properly using the WP Shortcode API.

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Code that parsed shortcodes themselves, instead of using the normal add_shortcode handlers and such, may be surprised by the new behavior of texturize, because the quote marks in what WP thinks isn’t a shortcode get texturized now like everything else. So their filters, which probably come after texturize, don’t get the expected quote marks.

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For users, the best way to fix this is upgrade. Many plugins have already released fixes, more are on the way. While it is possible to downgrade to WP 4.0, we really hope you don’t because of how serious the security fixes were. If you absolutely MUST downgrade, please nag your plugin/theme devs a lot to fix this STAT. Or stop using their stuff. It’s that big.

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For developers, if you’re making shortcodes, use the Shortcode API instead of rolling your own.

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Ticket 29557 in Trac describes the issue in detail. Unfortunately, some users have downgraded to WordPress 4.0 in order to fix plugin’s they rely on. Considering that 4.0.1 is a critical update filled with security and bug fixes, it’s strongly recommended that you don’t downgrade to 4.0. Instead, use the plugin’s support forum and notify the developer of the issues you’re having.

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But Point Releases Are Not Supposed to Break Anything

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The biggest concern users have with auto updates is the fear something will break. By default, WordPress 3.7 and above is configured to automatically update WordPress for point releases which generally contain security and or bug fixes. These kind of updates normally don’t break anything but in this case, several of the plugins were already broken and the update exposed bad development practices used by plugin authors.

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All it takes is one bad experience during an auto update to lose trust in the system. With over half of WordPress installs tracked using 3.6 or earlier, we can ill afford to have anymore users disable automatic updates.

CyberChimps, founded by Trent Lapinski, is seeking acquisition offers. Lapinski cites the reason as becoming too big too fast. CyberChimps owns and maintains Responsive, one of the most popular themes in the WordPress theme directory. CyberChimps also maintains iFeature, another popular theme closing in on 1M downloads. The core of the business is services, paid memberships, and commercial add-ons for themes and plugins. The company has over 1M free users of its products and over 34,000 paying customers.

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Despite living in San Francisco for two years and speaking with several investors, Lapinski has yet to find a proper fit. “We have tapped our social networks, explored every possible opportunity, and after four years of bootstrapping and massive traction we need a new strategy.”

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An acquisition would help propel the company to new heights while maintaining existing products and customer relationships. “This is the right time both for the CyberChimps team and the CyberChimps community to make a change. What we are able to do for the company and for the community has simply plateaued. It’s time to pass the torch onto someone else.” Lapinski said.

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CyberChimps customers don’t need to worry about any immediate changes. Lapinski promises to notify customers well in advance when negotiations are finalized. “We’ll be sure to announce well in advance the date that the final transfer will take place along with any changes to be aware of if applicable. We’ll do our best to make this transition as smooth as possible for everyone involved, especially our customers and community.”

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If you have a serious offer or would like to learn more about the company, you can contact Lapinski directly via email: trent at cyberchimps.com.

“Because the most-popular songs now stay on the charts for months, the relative value of a hit has exploded. The top 1 percent of bands and solo artists now earn 77 percent of all revenue from recorded music, media researchers report. And even though the amount of digital music sold has surged, the 10 best-selling tracks command 82 percent more of the market than they did a decade ago. The advent of do-it-yourself artists in the digital age may have grown music’s long tail, but its fat head keeps getting fatter.” — The Shazam Effect.

In this episode, Marcus Couch and I discuss WordPress 4.1 beta 1, the delay of Composer by SIDEKICK, and a revamped WP eCommerce plugin. Later in the show, we’re joined by the founder of WP101, Shawn Hesketh. Hesketh shares his work process, the equipment used to record videos, and what parts of WordPress user’s struggle with the most.

WP Engine is launching its high availability enterprise hosting platform today. The new product is called Mercury and it’s built to provide HHVM (with PHP-FPM failover) to customers who require better PHP performance.

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WP Engine is one of the first WordPress managed hosts to offer HHVM (HipHop Virtual Machine), a PHP execution engine originally created by Facebook to help make its infrastructure more efficient. Since HHVM is still new and isn’t 100% stable in production environments, WP Engine has opted to provide automatic fallback to its default PHP stack. This failover protection is invisible to visitors and is only in use 0.1% of the time while HHVM restarts.

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WP Engine partnered with 10up, a WordPress development agency, to design and create a system to bring HHVM to customers. Benchmarks reported by 10up indicate staggering performance improvements of up to 600%.

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On a generic WordPress + bbPress installation with no page caching, HHVM delivers on average a 5.6 faster response time over multiple tests:

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When testing bbPress with 250 concurrent logged-in users, HHVM consistently delivers a 3.6x faster response time. A regular WordPress site with a custom theme and plugins resulted in approximately 3.9 times faster response time with HHVM as compared to PHP-FPM. At the moment, HHVM doesn’t play well with BuddyPress but WP Engine plans to discuss this with John James Jacoby in the near future to see what can be done.

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10up founder Jake Goldman believes that HHVM will perform even better over time and become more affordable:

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Mirroring the history of air travel, Mercury will invariably become smoother, more affordable, and more accessible with time. We’re already excited by the early results: bbPress response times up to 5.6x faster, 3.6x faster at just 740ms with 250 concurrent visitors.

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10up volunteered its site as the first test case and is currently running on the new Mercury platform.

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Other developers have also been experimenting with WordPress on HHVM since earlier this year, achieving similar results in terms of performance improvement:

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Just got a dynamic WordPress page to load (no HTML output caching) and transfer to the browser in 58ms using HHVM. Ping to the server: 27ms.

The Future of HHVM and WordPress Hosting

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How long will it be before HHVM is the most common PHP engine for all WordPress managed hosts? Given how new and unstable it currently is, most hosts are not rushing to provide HHVM. However, the advances made by the collaboration between 10up and WP Engine should help to move other hosts along.

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“I think it is important to note that the Facebook HHVM open source team is really responsive to issues, thoughts, and feedback,” WP Engine representative Tomas Puig told the Tavern. “So it bodes super well for the future of us moving more WordPress systems to the technology.”

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Puig is optimistic that WP Engine and 10up’s work with HHVM will help to provide valuable feedback for WordPress core. “I deeply believe in Matt’s recent statements on WordPress as an application framework and the API work the core team is doing,” Puig said. “I think that HHVM enables us to build more rich experiences with WordPress in a more performant manner and that’s exciting. So really we want to elevate the community as a whole to getting our code ready for it.”

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Mercury customers will be given a Vagrant configuration to use for local development, and Puig said that the company is wiling to provide the configuration to anyone who requests it.

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One challenge for developers using HHVM is knowing what plugins are compatible with it. “Something I’d love to see is an option to mark plugins and themes in the official repository as HHVM tested,” Puig said. WP Engine is starting to conduct a large round of basic testing to find out which popular plugins are compatible with HHVM. “We’ll be releasing that list to the community as a whole so people know where to look and are also working with plugin developers and theme shops to get their code ready,” he said.

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On the HHVM side, WP Engine has been instrumental in paving the way for other open source projects to take advantage of it. Paul Tarjan, Facebook’s head of Open Source for HHVM, highlighted the importance of this partnership in the Mercury announcement:

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The WP Engine Labs team has done an impressive job in democratizing HHVM for the open-source community. We are excited to work alongside the Labs team to fine-tune the stack to reach HHVM’s full potential and drastically speed up PHP execution. PHP is the bedrock of Facebook, as well as much of the Internet, and this announcement should come as a major fillip for the entire developer community.

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The launch of Mercury means that many more WordPress users will have the opportunity to have their sites running on HHVM. As WordPress-specific issues are ironed out through WP Engine’s collaboration with the HHVM developers, it should become more stable over time.

WordPress core contributors released a security update today. All users who have not yet received the automatic update are encouraged to update as soon as possible. WordPress 4.0.1 is a critical security release that provides a fix for a critical cross-site scripting vulnerability, originally reported by Jouko Pynnonen on September 26th.

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Sites running WordPress versions 3.9.2 and earlier are affected by the vulnerability. Although installs running 4.0 are not specifically affected, this security update also includes fixes for 23 bugs and eight security issues.

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According to the official WordPress version usage stats, only 14.4% of sites are currently running 4.0. This means that the vast majority of WordPress sites and in need of this critical update. A large number of those sites are also running versions that pre-date the automatic background updates that were introduced in WordPress 3.7.

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If you want to keep your site on the cutting edge of security updates, it’s critical to have automatic background updates enabled. If you haven’t manually turned them off, WordPress 3.7+ has automatic updates enabled for minor releases by default. This includes maintenance, security, and translation file updates.

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Millions of WordPress sites around the web are being updated to 4.0.1 right now and older releases will be updated to 3.9.3, 3.8.5, or 3.7.5, as outlined in Andrew Nacin’s security release announcement. If you don’t want to wait for the automatic update, you can always go to Dashboard → Updates in the admin and update immediately.

In just under two years, DigitalOcean has managed to sail past competitors to become the world’s third largest hosting provider, according to a recent report published by Netcraft. The company’s SSD-based cloud hosting products cater to developers and other tech-savvy customers.

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As of November, DigitalOcean counts a total 187,866 active users running a cloud server (or “Droplet”), thanks in large part to the company’s affordable pricing structure, which starts at $5/month.

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How many DigitalOcean customers are running WordPress?

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I spoke with Tyler Hoffman, a DigitalOcean representative, who reports that the the company hosts 13,000 active 1-click WordPress droplets, a number which continues to grow each day. “These WordPress sites account for 3.74% of our total active ‘droplets,\'” he said.

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These figures are based solely on users who have deployed DigitalOcean’s 1-click WordPress images and do not take into account any custom WordPress images. The total number of WordPress droplets is likely much higher. In fact, at the end of October, Netcraft reported that “more than 23% of the active sites hosted at DigitalOcean are running WordPress, compared with less than 10% of all other active sites around the world.”

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At the moment, the company doesn’t seem to be actively trying to attract WordPress customers. Nevertheless, Hoffman reports that WordPress customers are on the rise. In October 2014, DigitalOcean users launched an average of 220 WordPress droplets per day via the 1-click method, roughly 6,600 per month. As WordPress currently powers more than 23% of the web, it will be interesting to see how much of that market the company will be able to capture.

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Netcraft reports that DigitalOcean is currently netting more than 68,000 new customers per month. In general, developers seem to appreciate the speed of deployment, the simplicity of the hosting interface, and the API for managing droplets and resources.

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The company is still relatively new to the hosting industry and caters heavily to developers, which makes its rise to being the third largest provider all the more remarkable. Although DigitalOcean’s products don’t necessarily cater to the average non-developer WordPress user, the company seems to have no problem adding WordPress customers to its user base.

If you have trouble keeping up with everything that’s happening in the Genesis WordPress community, you might be interested in a new site created by Andrea Whitmer called The Dailybolt. The Dailybolt publishes excerpts from sites that routinely write about the Genesis Framework by StudioPress. It’s powered by WordPress and uses the Whitespace Pro theme.

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The site allows Whitmer to conveniently read material mostly devoted to Genesis without having to use social media or a Feedreader. “Yes, I know how RSS works, but I subscribe to a lot of blogs in several different niches. I kept thinking it would be awesome to have a way to access the latest Genesis tutorials or articles without hunting them down on social media or in my RSS reader,” Whitmer said.

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I asked Whitmer if she plans to manually curate articles so the site contains more content dedicated to Genesis, “I created the site after polling my mailing list several months ago and they seemed interested in all the content coming from the community. So as of right now, I don’t plan to cull the other posts. However, I may remove some sites if they consistently publish articles about non-Genesis topics.”

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You can subscribe to the site via RSS or email. Those who subscribe by email will receive a daily digest of headlines. Aside from being a cool domain, it’s a convenient way to keep tabs on the Genesis WordPress community which has become a cottage industry. Are there any sites you’d like to see added to The Dailybolt? Give us a link in the comments.

As the boilerplate gained traction, McFarlin started receiving numerous requests for a generator to simplify the process of searching and replacing text strings throughout the boilerplate’s codebase. Although the boilerplate greatly speeds the process of structuring a new plugin to use a standardized, object-oriented foundation, it still requires the developer to manually replace strings for the plugin name, slug, URI and author info.

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Fans of the boilerplate have tried different approaches while attempting to come up with a generator, including one that uses a grunt-init template to generate a plugin from the boilerplate. While this solution generates a plugin in about 30 seconds flat, grunt isn’t necessarily a part of every developer’s workflow.

Simply enter your plugin information into the form on the site. When you click the “Build” button, the app will pull the code from the Boilerplate’s master branch on GitHub and will automatically replace all the necessary text strings. The result is your customized plugin delivered in a tidy zip file. If you use the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate as a starting point for your new plugins, this generator is a handy site to bookmark.

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The WordPress Plugin Boilerplate has now been starred more than 2,400 times on GitHub and has been forked more than 600 times. The project currently boasts 46 contributors and continues to grow. McFarlin plans to add more helpful resources to the boilerplate’s community site in early 2015 along with detailed documentation.

In what has been a long time coming, WP eCommerce has changed the URL of its website from GetShopped.org to WPEcommerce.org. Between the Shopp e-commerce plugin and Getshopped.org, it was confusing as to which product the site represented. The move to a more recognizable URL is the pinnacle of a series of improvements the project has undergone in the past few years.

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A Multi-Year Rewrite of WP eCommerce

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At nearly a decade old, WP eCommerce has gone through its share of ups and downs. It has a reputation among some developers in the WordPress community as being bloated and poorly coded. “The purpose of the rewrite is to bring us back up to latest WP coding standards,” Dan Milward, Founder of WP eCommerce, told the Tavern. “When we first released ​WP eCommerce, WordPress had sketchy coding standards at best (WordPress was at v1.5)​. As such, ​making a complex eCommerce Plugin back in the day was difficult and we had to do things in ways that are now frowned upon.”

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To put this in perspective, custom post types, taxonomies, and many of the hooks and filters developers rely on today simply didn’t exist. The legacy code has plagued the project from the beginning and is largely responsible for its negative reputation.

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Not having a robust set of WordPress coding standards to develop from allowed other eCommerce plugins to enter the market and leap frog over WP eCommerce. “We feel like those days are behind us and that it’s our turn to do some leap frogging.” Milward said. The alignment with today’s coding standards means WP eCommerce has a smaller footprint, runs faster, and is easier to maintain.

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Gary Cao, who previously lead the development of WP eCommerce, helped pave the way towards aligning it with today’s coding standards. Justin Sainton, co-founder of WP eCommerce, has taken over the role and is leading the development of WP eCommerce. Sainton is a well known developer in the WordPress community and has an impressive array of core contributions to WordPress.

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Sainton and Milward approach problems from very different yet, complimentary angles. The relationship has helped create a better business allowing each to focus on their core strengths. The WP eCommerce support team has been instrumental in being the front line of the company. “These folks are the front line and they are turning public opinion around in the WordPress.org forums and in premium support​. They are doing a great job at serving the WP community,” Milward said.

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Contributions have come from non WP eCommerce core developers as well, including the competition. Pippin Williamson, founder of Easy Digital Downloads, has 45 commits to the project since 2013. In early 2013, Williamson explained in detail why he contributes to WP eCommerce.

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I empathize with projects attempting to overcome a bad reputation when they clearly want to earn a better reputation. If you write bad code and never actually try to improve your project then I have a hard time believing you actually care about your users’ experience. The team behind WP e-Commerce is NOT one of those teams that doesn’t care about improving their plugin. They are one of the most down to earth, caring team of developers I’ve met. They really, really care about their users and customers, and they truly want to make WPEC a kick ass plugin again.

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Ben​ Huson​, Lee​ Willis​, Jeff​ Shutzman​,​ and Curtis McHale, among others also contribute to the project.

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The Future of WP eCommerce

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With the launch of the new site complete, Milward says the next feature they’re working on is implementing a theme engine based on the work John James Jacoby put into bbPress and BuddyPress. New object-oriented APIs and integration with the upcoming WP-API are among some of the other features planned for a future release. There will also be improvements to the WP eCommerce marketplace ecosystem for developers.

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Time to Give it Another Chance?

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WP eCommerce is nine years old and continues to chip away at legacy code, but has made substantial improvements over the past two years. Perhaps it’s time developers and users give it another chance. WP eCommerce is free to use and available in the WordPress plugin directory. If you’ve recently launched a project or use WP eCommerce, feel free to share your experience in the comments.

A couple months ago, Automattic made headlines with its public dismissal of Janet Jackson’s spurious claims of trademark and copyright infringement. Jackson is now a fixture in the company’s Hall of Shame, along with others who have issued abusive takedown demands. Automattic considers these a threat to freedom of speech and has even taken to the courts to protect users from DMCA abuse.

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Today, the company is open sourcing its DMCA process docs under the Legalmattic repository on GitHub, which sports the tagline “Democratizing WordPress.com legalese since 2014.” This collection of documents contains more than two dozen ‘predefined replies’ that Automattic uses when corresponding to various parties in the event of a complaint. It also includes a copy of the DMCA Takedown Notice and Counter Notice documents.

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The team at Automattic hopes that the open source DMCA process docs will help others to more easily implement their own processes for dealing with takedown notices. These documents are a valuable resource for small businesses and individuals who don’t have a legal team at their disposal to draft up appropriate replies to complaints. The DMCA process docs are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license and users are encouraged to re-use and edit them for their own purposes.

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Whether you administer a large blogging network or simply maintain a small blog of your own, Automattic’s predefined responses may provide a good starting point for getting a grasp on the language and the process of dealing with DMCA complaints.

This year’s State of the Word at WordCamp San Francisco emphasized WordPress going global through improvements to internationalization. This year also marks the first time non-English downloads of WordPress have surpassed its English counterpart.

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Catering to Customer’s Needs

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With WordPress raising the bar, it won’t be long until users and customers expect themes and plugins to be translatable and available in multiple languages. Rebecca Gill, of Web Savvy Marketing, announced its catalog of themes are now translatable and coded for localization and multilingual use.

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In her post, Gill explains the thought process behind the move.

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If 50% of our product sales are internationally based, then I need to spend time making sure these buyers are being taken care of and clearly I wasn’t. I was expecting this to be handled by Genesis, the WordPress core, or translation plugins.

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I didn’t realize how badly I was ignoring the needs of our international customer base. And for that, I am truly sorry.

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The work was completed through a collaborated effort between Carrie Dils, Nir Rosenbaum, and Gary Jones. Each theme has been updated to include I18n and RTL (Right to Left) support. Files included in each theme are:

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POT File – A file with i18n ready strings.

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en_US.po File – A file with translated strings and English strings.

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en_US.mo File – A file converted to a format optimized to be read by machines.

Ever theme is an opportunity to learn techniques, code, and best-practices. I believe the quickest way to make an impact and to raise awareness is for commercial theme companies to support and advertise I18n and RTL as cool features.

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The fact these improvements are part of a smart business move doesn’t detract from their importance. The more theme developers and companies who place I18n and RTL near the top of the priority list, the better.

Ask twenty people why you should go to a WordCamp and you’ll likely receive 20 different answers. A recent post by Waseem Abbas, of Cloudways, is proof positive. He asked 20 different members of the WordPress community, including yours truly, why you should attend a WordCamp. He’s compiled the answers into a slidehsare document.

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Like Heather Baker Steele, I view WordCamps as family reunions with family members I want to socialize with! The WordPress family continues to grow rapidly every year and WordCamps are opportunities to not only strengthen relationships but also to create new ones.

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Check out the official WordCamp schedule to see if there’s an event near you. Also check Meetup.com to see if there’s a WordPress meetup close by. WordPress meetups are like WordCamps but on a much smaller scale.

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Last but not least, if you’re planning on going to your first WordCamp, read this survival guide by Carrie Dils. The guide contains advice that improves the chance you’ll have a great experience.

Postmatic is hoping to revolutionize WordPress comments by giving readers a way to subscribe to new posts/comments via email and leave a comment by simply hitting reply. Since email is usually the way most people find out about comments, having the ability to reply without leaving your inbox in convenient, especially when you’re on the go.

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Postmatic’s post and comment subscriptions feature is quite similar to Jetpack’s subscriptions module. Jetpack is the plugin’s strongest competitor. While both plugins are free and perform similar functions, Postmatic includes the added ability to reply by email, subscription invitations, and a mobile-friendly email template that is fully customizable.

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Today, Postmatic’s co-founder Jason Lemieux announced that the plugin now supports single-click migration of subscribers from Jetpack. The beta 6 version of the plugin introduces a secure importer that will copy over all of your new post notification Jetpack subscribers in a matter of seconds.

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Beta 6 adds a native Postmatic exporter to allow users to export their subscribers, along with subscription preferences, to a CSV file. Postmatic’s creators are also gradually adding to a shortcode whitelist that will allow the display of third-party shortcode content in emails.

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The plugin is available on WordPress.org and is production ready but is still in limited-release beta. Postmatic is releasing a few hundred API keys per week to those who sign up for beta access.

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In the future, the Postmatic creators hope to monetize the plugin by offering paid delivery of outgoing mail for larger sites, Lemieux told Post Status in a recent interview. They also have an extensive list of planned features. The basic Postmatic plugin, however, will remain free for any number of blogs with any number of posts and subscribers.

Gigaom has been pumping out a steady stream of news and analysis on technology since 2006. The WordPress-powered site attracts 6.5 million monthly unique visitors with topics ranging from science and energy to cloud businesses, media and mobile.

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With years of articles buried in its archives, it’s important for Gigaom to have a solid search experience. The site’s engineering team, led by Casey Bisson, opted to utilize Sphinx in order to improve upon WordPress’ native searching capabilities.

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The result is a super fast dedicated search page at search.gigaom.com that features the ability to further narrow results based on available terms.

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The advanced search feature was built using a combination of several open source plugins built by Bisson. These plugins integrate Sphinx and taxonomy filtering to help users more easily explore Gigaom’s wealth of content. All the tools are open source and were contributed back to the community for anyone to use.

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Sphinx is a GPL-licensed full text search server that was created to be highly performant while returning the most relevant results. In order to integrate it with WordPress, Bisson developed Gigaom Sphinx. The plugin pulls WordPress posts into Sphinx and then queries them using the standard WP_Query class.

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Gigaom Sphinx requires that you first install Sphinx and then set it up with the sample config file, which includes parameters to index the site’s content. Once the site is fully indexed in Sphinx, WordPress query performance will be greatly improved.

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In order to further filter results, Gigaom uses Scriblio, a plugin that provides faceted searching and browsing of WordPress posts, pages, and custom post types. This enables users to further narrow down results based on taxonomies and their available terms. The facets are easily added via configurable widgets, which you can include on your site’s search, tag and category archives, and other archive pages.

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Search results can be filtered using multiple terms. This allows visitors to quickly nail down the most relevant content.

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The facets can be displayed as either tag clouds or lists, as shown above. Scriblio’s search editor widget will show the selected search terms and allows the user to easily add or remove terms while automatically updating results.

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The plugin also includes live search suggestions as you type. These recommendations are based on all available taxonomies as well as post titles.

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The last plugin required to create Gigaom’s unique search experience is bCMS, which was also developed by Bisson. It enhances WordPress’ CMS capabilities in a number of ways and includes a setting to enable full text keyword indexing.

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For a full rundown of Gigaom’s searching capabilities, check out the FAQ item devoted to search. Thanks to Bisson and the Gigaom team, these tools are available for any WordPress site administrator to use. If you need more fine-grained sorting capabilities for search results, the combination of Gigaom Sphinx, Scriblio and bCMS is a solid option.

In a bid to protect as many users as possible by default, Clef has partnered with Installatron. Founded in 2004, Installatron is one of the most popular script installers used on the web. Similar to Fantastico and Softaculous, Installatron is a script installer that enables users to quickly install more than 170 different applications including, WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla.

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Clef is a mobile app that replaces usernames and passwords, enabling users to log in easily with their smartphones. The Clef WordPress plugin is growing rapidly in popularity, with over 130,000 downloads and over 15,000 sites using the service. The partnership enables automated WordPress installs from Installatron to have Clef support out of the box. The partnership also enables webhosts that use Installatron to be added to Clef’s Safer Hosts Program.

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“Making two-factor accessible around the web is a critical step in securing our lives online,” said Brennen Byrne, CEO at Clef. “Protecting new users by default, instead of requiring research and expertise, is how we will build a safer Internet. Installatron has been a leader in providing secure infrastructure for their huge customer base and we’re excited to be a big part of it.”

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Earlier this year, Clef partnered with Softaculous to provide two-factor authentication to automated WordPress installs. By leveraging partnerships with companies like Softaculous and Installatron, Clef is rapidly making a huge impact in securing the web by default.

Among the festivities at WordCamp Toronto 2014, was the planned release of Composer by SIDEKICK. Instead, Composer has been delayed and the release date is to be determined. According to the announcement, the plugin and its architecture are not ready for customers just yet. In a FAQ accompanying the post, SIDEKICK Co-founder, Ben Fox, gives more details on what’s not ready.

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A little bit of everything really. The new architecture which is going to power SIDEKICK Composer and the new version of our Player is kick-ass and working but the integration between it, the new account centre, the billing system and Composer itself is still “fragile”. Add to that the fact that the new version of our website, which is necessary to power the front-end of the new Account Center, isn’t complete yet and we have a recipe for launch disaster.

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Although it is disappointing to those who expected to purchase Composer over the weekend, at least one person cites the news as a good example of what to do when you’re not ready to launch a product.

Since the news broke, SIDEKICK has received an unexpected outpouring of support. “Something like 30 direct emails, numerous tweets and FaceBook messages plus we were approached at WordCamp Toronto by many people who offered their support for our choice,” Fox told the Tavern. Several people have commended SIDEKICK for its transparency. “What really got me though was not just the understanding our customers and community have shown but also the praise for our direct and transparent communication.”

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Despite a lot of talk in the WordPress community around the idea of “just ship it“, SIDEKICK decided to hold off to fix a few loose ends. In an essay by Matt Mullenweg entitled “1.0 Is The Loneliest Number,” he uses Apple as an example of a company that’s not afraid to ship a rudimentary version 1.0 to the public. The essay goes on to describe the idea of ship early, iterate often and how it’s the approach used to develop WordPress.

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By shipping early and often you have the unique competitive advantage of hearing from real people what they think of your work, which in best case helps you anticipate market direction, and in worst case gives you a few people rooting for you that you can email when your team pivots to a new idea. Nothing can recreate the crucible of real usage.

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You think your business is different, that you’re only going to have one shot at press and everything needs to be perfect for when Techcrunch brings the world to your door. But if you only have one shot at getting an audience, you’re doing it wrong.

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The challenge of releasing the first version of a product or service is one many companies are familiar with. Composer is not ready for prime time but the question is, how will Fox and his team determine when it’s ready? “SIDEKICK will never be perfect in our eyes and we waited until the last possible moment to make the call because we wanted to make sure we weren’t releasing simply out of a need for perfection,” Fox told the Tavern. “I can’t speak for the entire community or other startups but I can tell you that while we’re not afraid to release a product that’s not ‘perfect’, we will never release something that doesn’t work as advertised just for the sake of making a release date.”

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When it comes to releasing a product, there appears to be a happy medium of being good enough for consumer adoption but not bad enough to delay the release. As a product developer or service provider, how do you determine when your product or service has reached the happy medium and what factors go into the decision? Let us know in the comments.

“If, like me, you are a staunch pogonophile and do not believe there is a single man who cannot be improved with a beard, these are happy times indeed.” The Guardian asks Have we reached peak beard?. Also check out their take on the lumbersexual, which a closet full of plaid shirts might indicate I’m trending toward.

In a matter of months, Slack has managed to become the favorite communication tool for thousands of businesses, boasting more than 250,000 daily active users, with roughly 30% of them paying for the service. The company recently acquired $120 million to fund further growth and is now valued at $1.1 billion dollars.

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While Slack helps teams get things done together, much of the actual work happens outside of the app. That’s why the Slack API offers the ability to add new Incoming WebHooks to integrate outside services. With WordPress powering 23%+ of the world’s websites, it’s important to have an easy way to bring in notices from those sites.

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Self-hosted WordPress installations have the option of using the Slack plugin, created by Akeda Bagus, a developer with X-team. Last week we featured the bbPress Slack Integration plugin, which allows you to send notifications of new bbPress topics and replies to your Slack channel of choice. WP Slack performs a similar function for general WordPress events.

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The plugin is capable of notifying Slack, based on a few basic events:

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When a post needs review (status transitioned to ‘pending’)

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Additionally, it includes a slack_get_events filter for adding more events. The documentation provides an example of creating a new event that will notify Slack when a user is logged in:

Configuration inside the WordPress admin is simple. Once you’ve set up the webhook with Slack, you simply paste it into the Service URL field when setting up an integration:

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WP Slack allows you to set up multiple integrations so you can send notices to different channels. Notices can also be temporarily deactivated and turned back on a later time. When you finish setting up an integration, the plugin allows you to fire off a test notification to ensure that it’s working correctly.

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Bagus has also developed a suite of free extensions that notify Slack based on events triggered by other plugins:

These plugins make it possible to keep your team notified of new orders on a WooCommerce or EDD-powered store, or even website inquiries from your site’s contact form. Each extension requires the Slack plugin to be installed first.

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While the plugin author hasn’t announced plans to add this feature, it might be useful to have support for Outgoing Webhooks as well. That would make it possible for WordPress to get information back from Slack based on public triggers used in the channel. The possibilities for this could be interesting. For example, you could set up a trigger that automatically creates a new draft or perhaps publishes a one-sentence summary of a quick meeting.

WordPress 4.1 beta 1 was released into the hands of eager testers today, just in time for the weekend. John Blackbourn announced the beta and outlined a list of features and improvements that you’ll want to put through the paces. The most visible items include the following:

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The new Twenty Fifteen default theme

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The ability to automatically install new language packs right from the General Settings screen (available as long as your site’s file system is writable).

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A new inline formatting toolbar for images embedded into posts.

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The items listed do not include everything that’s coming in 4.1, but rather the features that require the most testing before the official release. There are also many improvements under the hood for developers to test:

The Focus project (the new DFW) was merged into core along with the user session UI. So far, reaction to the new distraction-free writing mode has been mixed, with the most vocal feedback coming from those who are not looking forward to turning the feature off on multiple sites. WordPress core contributors will be gathering feedback during the beta period in order to determine whether or not the new DFW mode will be shipped as “on” by default. Having it off by default decreases users’ ability to discover the new DFW mode, but it would also help it to be more universally well-received.

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If you want to jump in and help test 4.1 beta 1 with all its exciting improvements, the easiest way is to get hooked up with the WordPress Beta Tester plugin. This will allow you to update your test install to use the “bleeding edge nightlies.” The other option is to download the zip file from Blackbourn’s beta 1 announcement post.

Masonry is a new free WordPress theme with an elegant 1-column design. You’d be hard-pressed to find a theme that is easier to set up. It offers just a handful of options built into the native customizer, including the ability to customize the header colors and header background image.

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The theme is mobile-friendly, with a hidden sidebar that houses the primary navigation and widgets. It also has support for a footer menu and a social links menu at the top. With the help of the Regenerate Thumbnails plugin, you can have an existing site looking just like the Masonry demo in a matter of a couple minutes.

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The Story Behind Masonry: A WordPress.org Theme Collaboration

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There’s a unique story behind the creation of this theme. Masonry was started as a collaboration project between WordPress theme designer Emil Uzelac and DeviX, a development company founded by Mario Peshev and Stanko Metodiev.

Uzelac was Peshev’s mentor for the Theme Review Team in 2011 before he promoted him to a reviewer. This was back in the days when you had to pass more than a dozen test reviews before moving on. “Emil is super dedicated to the WPTRT and a great person and should not be left unemployed at any time,” Peshev said. He responded to his tweet, and a theme collaboration was born.

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DevriX set out some ideas for the theme and then hired Uzelac to design and develop it. “We have added several things and will keep maintaining it, but we paid him for a full zip file that was (almost) ready to go on WordPress.org,” Peshev said. “Since he’s one of the TRT admins, it was the easiest way to cover the hundreds of requirements there.”

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Peshev said that DevriX gets no practical business benefit from the theme, as the company doesn’t perform customization or installation services. He saw it as a good way to give back to the community while also helping volunteers to find more work for their expertise.

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As a result of this collaboration experience, Peshev discovered that there is no easy way for people to find and hire those who are skilled at preparing a theme for approval on WordPress.org. He suggested that a directory of Theme Review team members might be a good idea for promoting the folks who have these abilities.

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There is no clear way to hire any of them for theme reviews or building a theme following the WordPress.org guidelines. I assume that small and medium agencies would be willing to pay for professional reviews or getting themes built for any reason, which would support both parties. I’ve had several clients paying for code reviews and fixing themes in order to get them in the WordPress.org Theme Directory.

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In the past, themes have sometimes taken months to go through the process, after getting rejected a few times and then finally gaining approval. Hiring someone to help prepare a theme to pass WordPress.org guidelines can save a company a good chunk of time. “Given the 4-6 week period to get a theme reviewed, that’s a valuable service,” Peshev said.

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A directory would help people in the community to be able to identify the qualified Theme Review Team volunteers available to hire for code review, even for products that are marketed outside of WordPress.org. “Same goes for all the other teams that don’t get props in the Core releases, such as docs, polyglots and accessibility” Peshev said. “In this case, theme reviewers are not listed anywhere and not publicly available for hire (for new themes or professional reviews).”

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In the case of Uzelac and Peshev’s collaboration, the end result is a nice free theme for the community to enjoy. With all the volunteer hours put into reviewing themes for WordPress.org, do you think reviewers could benefit from being listed in a directory? Or would this needlessly complicate the relationship between reviewers and submissions on WordPress.org?

One topic to come out of the discussion surrounding the cost to attend LoopConf is the idea that WordCamps can’t be developer focused. One of the most exciting aspects of LoopConf is the chance to dive deep into technical discussions. WordCamps generally cater to a wide range of skill levels, which some feel prevent these types of discussions from occurring.

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There’s nothing in the WordCamp guidelines that state WordCamps have to cater to all experience levels, it’s just what most organizers do based on the needs of their local community. In 2011, Morten Rand-Hendriksen organized an event called WordCamp Developers held in Vancouver, BC. WordPress developers and designers interested in learning about practical, applied WordPress development by industry leaders and local WordPress practitioners attended the event.

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This is something that our team discussed after the previous year’s WordCamp completed. There was a desire to not only create a camp for WordPress developers but also a WordPress focused event that would be of interest to the larger tech community within Vancouver to see what WordPress could do. While attending other events like CascadiaJS conference, I found myself correcting a lot of people’s old pre-conceived notions of what WordPress is and can do now.

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We tried to be clear with our content that this event was going to focus on building with WordPress and not necessarily about end user topics. In emails, on the website, social media and in community posts like the one WPTavern published about our event we tried to get the message out that if you can or wanted to know how to build on WordPress, this would be an event for you.

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We also connected with other tech related meet up groups and asked for the assistance in getting the word out about our event and reached out to several schools that offered web development programs and offered their students discount tickets. Even so, there are some people who are going to attend because they’re aware of WordPress and want to see what it’s all about but don’t know how to design or develop for it. From our experience, we’ve found you can’t really stop that.

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Reach out to the tech community beyond WordPress, not only for attendees but also speakers. Many of them will be happy to help. Don’t be afraid of the content being too advanced for some attendees but try to balance out the talks so that less experienced developers don’t feel overwhelmed the entire time.

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Talk to meet up and smaller local event planners to get a sense for your community’s general skill level so you can better anticipate likely attendance levels for the more advanced talks. I am one of the co-organizers for the Vancouver meet up and I focus on the dev branch, so I had a decent idea of how many high level developers in our community would actually attend these events.

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Organizers are encouraged to experiment and break from the mold while still following the guidelines. WordCamp Vancouver Developer Edition proves it’s possible and if you look at their budget sheet, it cost just over $18,000. So not only can organizers create a WordPress developer centric event using the WordCamp branding, the financial support of doing so makes it much more affordable.

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One of the keys to the success of WordCamp Vancouver for developers and designers is understanding the needs of the local WordPress community. If there is sufficient demand and the community is large enough, consider organizing an event in your area. There’s also no rules in the guidelines that limit the amount of WordCamps per year in a given city. This means organizers can continue to have traditional WordCamps while organizing a separate event catered to developers.

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I want to know from those who have organized 500-1,000 person WordCamps if you plan to branch out and create smaller, niche events while using the WordCamp branding? If so, please let us know in the comments. Also feel free to share concerns, ideas, or ask questions related to organizing a niche event.

Since our guest couldn’t make it due to illness, Marcus Couch and I took the opportunity to thank all of the wonderful listeners who responded to our call to action in episode 169. I followed up the first segment with a 10-15 minute rant beginning at 13:25 on WP Drama. Marcus and I agree that it’s a dismissive term and doesn’t offer anything productive to the WordPress ecosystem. After the rant, we discuss the news of the week and Marcus gives his two-word review of Ghost.

In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission in 2002 reclassified high-speed Internet access as an information service, which is unregulated, rather than as telecommunications, which is regulated. Its hope was that Internet providers would compete with one another to provide the best networks. That didn’t happen. The result has been that they have mostly stayed out of one another’s markets.\n

Anas H. Sulaiman is a WordPress plugin developer who has created several extensions that extract modules from Jetpack so that they can be used independently. He recently renamed his WordPress.org profile to “JP Bot” and is gradually adding to his collection of Jetpack-extractions:

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One of his most popular plugins is JP Markdown, which essentially duplicates Jetpack’s Markdown module. It allows you to compose WordPress content in Markdown and have it published as HTML. I gave the plugin a test run and found that it works as advertised:

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JP Markdown even includes the “Use Markdown for Comments” feature that you can enable under Settings > Discussion. This plugin is a solid option if you like the Markdown module in Jetpack but don’t want everything else that comes with it.

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The JP Bot family of plugins extracted from Jetpack currently includes:

When WordPress is used heavily as a content management system, taxonomies play a very important role for grouping information. While your standard blog might only have a handful of categories, more content-heavy sites can include hundreds of terms within custom taxonomies.

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Scrolling through an impossibly long list of categories or terms can be a clunky experience in the post editor. Taxonomy Filter is a new solution for this, created by Andrea Landonio, a software engineer at Condé Nast in Milan.

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The plugin allows users to filter hierarchical term taxonomies inside the WordPress admin. Specifically, it adds a custom input field for filtering taxonomies when a user is assigning them in the post editor. Here’s an example with the default category taxonomy:

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Categories are automatically narrowed down as you type, so that you can easily locate the one you’re looking for.

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The Taxonomy Filter plugin has a settings page that allows you configure which taxonomies you want to make filterable. Currently, it only works with hierarchical taxonomies, including default categories and custom taxonomies. (It does not support non-hierarchical tags.)

I tested the plugin and found that it works as advertised to quickly filter taxonomies. One added benefit is that it’s likely to keep users from impatiently creating new categories when they overlook an existing category due to too much scrolling. The instinct is to just create a new one which may have a similar name to one that already exists. This further bloats the list and makes categories less effective for grouping content.

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Installing the Taxonomy Filter plugin is one small way that you can make assigning a taxonomy a little more convenient and less clunky in the admin. Download it for free from WordPress.org.

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John Blackbourn announced this afternoon that he will be merging the Focus Project into WordPress core ahead of the upcoming 4.1 release. Last week Jeff Chandler explored how the Focus Project plans to enhance distraction-free writing in WordPress. If you haven’t been following the project, it’s essentially a complete re-think of the way WordPress has approached the DFW feature.

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Mark Jaquith posted a demo video of the feature earlier this week when proposing it to be merged into core for 4.1. If you haven’t tested it yet, this video gives you a good idea of how the feature will work.

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In general, WordPress users have found distraction-free writing to be a valuable experience but are dissatisfied with the disconnect of being separated from the rest of the publishing tools in the editor. The Focus Project minimizes the transition, automatically fading the non-essential parts of the editor when you start typing. It keeps the the publishing tools just a mouse swipe away.

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The old DFW button is now changed to be a disabling toggle. For the 4.1 beta, this new feature will be automatically on, and WordPress core contributors will use this time to gather feedback and decide whether or not it should be on or off by default. If left on by default, it will be the most visible new feature in 4.1, since it impacts anyone who uses the content editor.

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Session UI Approved to Merge Into Core

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The second item approved for merge into 4.1 is the user session UI, which is essentially a button that displays when a user has more than one active session. When clicked, the button will log the user out of all other sessions.

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During today’s core development chat, Blackbourn also outlined plans for the putting the session UI feature on track for future improvements. “We’ll use the session UI repo on GitHub for future iterations (and we’ll do it as a proper feature plugin too if necessary),” he said. “Or it might just not be developed any further.”

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He also clarified that planned improvements to extension installation and update screens will not make it into this release. “So unfortunately due to the work that some core folks have been doing on 4.0.1, the improvements that were slated for the plugin and theme install (and update) screens has not progressed past mockups, so that has been shelved for 4.1,” Blackbourn said.

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Shared Terms Will be Split in WordPress 4.1

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Under the hood, developers can look forward to progress on the taxonomy roadmap. Boone Gorges has made huge strides in fixing issues with shared terms. Unraveling this knot was an extraordinary feat, not unlike navigating through a minefield, when it comes to backwards compatibility.

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As of 4.1, updating a shared term will cause it to be split into two separate terms. This solves a common problem where you update a term and have the others changed unintentionally. It also paves the way for more exciting improvements to taxonomy meta and post relationships, as Andrew Nacin outlined last year.

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The new Twenty Fifteen default theme should also ship in this release, ready just in time for the new year. Blackbourn and contributors are aiming to have WordPress 4.1 beta 1 available Thursday around lunchtime GMT. The official release is scheduled for the week of December 8th.

WordPress recently adopted Slack as its primary communication tool for contributor teams, largely replacing IRC. When trac tickets are mentioned in Slack, they are automatically linked up, which helps contributors reference and connect discussions. So far, the app has been enthusiastically received, especially since it offers a far more mobile-friendly option for asynchronous communication.

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WordPress-related projects outside of core have also started using Slack for team collaboration. Contributors to the Pods Framework are finding Slack to be instrumental for staying connected. That’s why Josh Pollock, community manager for the project, created bbPress Slack Integration. This new plugin allows you to send notifications of new bbPress topics and replies to your Slack channel of choice.

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Staying on Top of Support Requests

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The Pods team already had GitHub and Asana integrations with their channels. These were working well, but they were missing updates from their bbPress-powered support forums in the team’s support channel.

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“The external integrations help keep us aware of what’s happening, while we’re working,” Pollock said. “This plugin does the same thing for support requests and makes us more responsive when we are in ‘Pods Mode.\'”

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The bbPress Slack Integration plugin uses the WordPress HTTP API and a Slack webhook to send notifications from the forum where it is installed.

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In order to use the plugin with your own bbPress forums, you’ll first need to add a new Slack webhook by visiting:

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https://your-team-name.slack.com/services/new/incoming-webhook

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Set a channel to receive the notifications, copy the URL for the webhook, and paste it into the plugin’s settings page (Settings->bbPress Slack). You’ll be all set to start receiving bbPress notifications within your specified slack channel.

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If you think that bbPress integration will help your team communicate better on Slack, you can download the plugin for free from WordPress.org. bbPress Slack Integration is also available on GitHub if you want to contribute.

One of the toughest battles a U.S. military veteran faces after returning from active duty is finding a job and reentering the work force. The battle is so tough that in 2011, First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden came together to launch Joining Forces. Joining Forces is a nationwide initiative calling all Americans to rally around service members, veterans, and their families and support them through wellness, education, and employment opportunities.

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James Dalman, who honorably served in the Oklahoma National Guard, is doing his part to help veterans find jobs in the web technology industry through his non-profit organization, Happy Joe.

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The Happy Joe Mission

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Happy Joe is a 501 c3 non-profit organization that helps U.S. veterans with entrepreneurship and employment opportunities. Training initiatives prepare veterans not only for a career in the web technology industry, but also provide the skills necessary to start their own businesses. Most of the team behind the organization is either in active duty or has previous military experience.

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The organization’s mission is to give back to veterans in a measurable way that makes a deep impact.

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Happy Joe provides career placement and job training in the web technology industry free of charge to our veterans. We help them navigate their re-entry into the civilian marketplace and advocate for the rights that they’ve earned the right to. And we partner with the best companies and resources to ensure that our military veterans have every opportunity to become successful after their commitment to service is over.

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Training and job placement programs are funded primarily by the Happy Joe Scholarship Fund. 100% of the donations and contributions go towards the efforts of working with veterans. Funds are also obtained through a sponsorship program several companies routinely contribute to, including Automattic and iThemes.

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WordPress’ Role at Happy Joe

WordPress is the cornerstone used to help veterans learn a valuable skill. By learning WordPress, veterans can take advantage of valuable opportunities to work in the field either as an employee or through contract work. Dalman tells the Tavern that in 2015, as part of the training initiative, he’ll launch WP Bootcamps. “WP Bootcamps will be tailored to the military community and help our Armed Forces veterans to set up resume style websites on WordPress so that they can be seen as technology relevant.”

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Success Stories

When asked if there are any success stories, Dalman points to himself as an example, “Personally, WordPress has allowed me as a veteran to launch very successful businesses in the marketplace, in addition to helping other veterans do the same. I am not the most tech savvy person in the world, but WordPress has provided me with the ability to make a great living, doing work I love to do.”

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Learning and working with WordPress affords him the opportunity to travel and meet amazing people in the community. When asked by veterans if they can make a living in web technology using WordPress, Dalman responds, “I tell them if I can do it, they certainly can!” Some of the veterans taking advantage of Happy Joe are homeless or in deep financial trouble but are using WordPress to make a better life for themselves. Dalman notes that success stories of members will soon be shared on the Happy Joe website.

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Happy Joe Needs Your Financial Support

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While spreading the word about Happy Joe is appreciated, Dalman says the organization first and foremost needs financial assistance. “We need people to help fund the training and mentoring of our veterans. We have a lot of people who are sharing the story and mission of Happy Joe and we are VERY appreciative of that. However, we need sponsorships and donations to make a true difference.”

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Happy Joe is working with around a dozen veterans with more on the way. According to Dalman, there are a half-dozen companies willing and ready to hire veterans. However, the organization can’t make it happen without funding. “There is work that we need to do to get veterans up to speed and ready. This takes time, money, and commitment. So please, go and donate to Happy Joe today so that we ALL can make a difference.”

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If you’re interested in contributing financial support to the Happy Joe project, you can do so via the donations page. Keep in mind that it’s a 501c3 non-profit organization meaning donations are tax-deductible. 100% of public donations and contributions go directly to helping the veterans Happy Joe works with. There’s also a sponsorship page that explains not only how companies can get involved but also the benefits each sponsorship level provides. For example, Alpha Team sponsors which are the highest tier receive VIP access to trained and dependable veterans.

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Veterans day in the U.S. is a reminder for Americans to remember and thank those who honorably serve or served in the military, it’s organizations like Happy Joe that think of them and give back year round.

Note is a simple and easy to use widget for editing bits of text, within the widget via the customizer developed by Slocum Studio. Although you can edit text widgets in the customizer, it’s a boring experience and requires HTML knowledge to format text. Note enables you to add and edit content live from within the widget similar to a frontend editor.

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From within the customizer, you can add a Title, apply a CSS class, or click the button which is like a shortcut to edit the widget’s content. One thing I noticed immediately is that applying a title doesn’t match the behavior of other widgets in WordPress. As you can see in the screenshot, the widget title doesn’t inherit the same style as the others. According to Matt Medeiros of Slocum Studio, this behavior is intentional.

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We wanted the writing experience to be as pure as possible when using Note. We decided to omit displaying widget titles as part of that experience in the first version, but plan to revisit that in an upcoming release.

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It may be intentional, but it gives me a sense that either the widget or my theme is broken. At its most basic level, Note should function the same way as a default text widget. Hopefully in a future version, the team will change the behavior to match that of a regular widget with an option to show or hide the title.

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Not only can you edit the widget’s content without visiting the backend, you can do it in style. Simply highlight text within the widget and a toolbar shows up allowing you to format the text. Note has a What You See Is What You Get interface. This is convenient since you no longer have to edit content, click save and publish, then refresh the page to see the changes.

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One feature missing from Note is the ability to add media, but Medeiros confirmed it will be added in a future release. While testing Note, I encountered a bug that added a / to every word that has an apostrophe. For example, I’ve turned into I/’ve. The bug presents itself when the customizer is open and a page refresh occurs. The team is aware of the bug and is working on a fix.

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Overall, I like what I see from Note. Once a few bugs are squashed and the ability to display the widget title is added, it will be a great replacement for the default Text widget. Note is available for free on the WordPress plugin directory. You can also follow development of Note on Github where you can also file bug reports and contribute patches.

The Shortcode API was introduced in 2008 when WordPress 2.5 was released. Over the past six years, the UI for adding shortcodes has changed very little, despite the fact that they remain a big part of how many WordPress users structure complex content.

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Shortcake is a new project created by the folks at Fusion with the aim of bringing new life to shortcodes. The plugin is aptly named, as it was designed to make shortcodes a piece of cake for users.

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Shortcake gives developers an easy way to register a UI for their shortcodes by utilizing 4.0’s changes to TinyMCE views. Developers can use the Shortcake plugin alongside add_shortcode to create a user-friendly interface for adding shortcode content and attributes to pages/posts.

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The Fusion team provided a before and after example of editing a shortcode for a pullquote, with an example file to show you how to use it:

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The plugin currently supports the following input types: text, checkbox, textarea, radio, select, email, url, number, and date. The team behind it plans to improve it to support data sources and will also be publishing more documentation and example usages.

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The VIP team at Automattic liked the plugin so much that they have now made it available for all WordPress.com VIP customers, which is a testament to its quality. Fusion plans to present the project at the next Big Media & Enterprise WordPress meetup in New York.

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Gone are the days when you can afford to torture your users with complex shortcodes. Shortcake is a new tool for your toolbox that enables you to provide your users/clients with a more intuitive UI that is less overwhelming. Check the project out on GitHub, find out what you can create with it, and watch for improvements in the near future.

I like to use the analogy of building bridges. If I have no principles, and I build thousands of bridges without any actual science, lots of them will fall down, and great disasters will occur.

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Similarly here, if people use data and inferences they can make with the data without any concern about error bars, about heterogeneity, about noisy data, about the sampling pattern, about all the kinds of things that you have to be serious about if you’re an engineer and a statistician—then you will make lots of predictions, and there’s a good chance that you will occasionally solve some real interesting problems. But you will occasionally have some disastrously bad decisions. And you won’t know the difference a priori. You will just produce these outputs and hope for the best.

John James Jacoby launched an Indiegogo campaign today with the goal of raising $50,000 to fund six months of full-time work on WordPress’ three sister projects: BuddyPress, bbPress, and GlotPress. While WordPress core has many contributors who are sponsored by companies, the sister projects have yet to receive this kind of investment from the community.

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Jacoby is a longtime WordPress developer/contributor and the project lead on BuddyPress and bbPress. WordPress depends heavily on the continued maintenance and improvement of the sister projects and he believes that they can benefit from having a dedicated developer.

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BuddyPress is the plugin that powers the 16 million WordPress.org profiles, activity stream, and badge system. The WordPress.org support forums, along with the thousands of plugin and theme support forums, are all powered by bbPress. GlotPress is a BackPress-powered application that enabled WordPress, BuddyPress, and bbPress to be translated into different languages. Improvements to GlotPress are critical for WordPress’ global mission to democratize publishing.

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“WordPress is more community than software, yet the software that powers the community has nobody working on it full time,” Jacoby said. “I want to change this.”

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The campaign came about after developer Jenny Wong made the suggestion during events surrounding WordCamp San Francisco. Wong has been instrumental in organizing community contribution days and has a passion for bringing people together. “I think a lot more would be done if there are dedicated people all over the community,” she said.

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Jacoby had considered the idea before but didn’t think there would be enough people interested in supporting it. With the suggestion and support from Wong and others at WCSF, he decided to give it a try. “BuddyPress, bbPress, and GlotPress came up so frequently, and I was pulled into so many discussions. I felt happy for how important those projects are to everyone, and sad that I haven’t found a way to truly dedicate myself to them,” Jacoby told the Tavern.

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“Near the end of the first day of the contributor summit, I was more emotional about it than I expected to be, and had a hard time translating that into words. Thankfully, Jen Mylo (who has always been super supportive to me) summed it up really nicely, and Jenny Wong followed up with the idea of raising money via Indiegogo.”

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Jacoby’s aim is to work on the projects “while remaining an independent and impartial entity with a dedicated period of distraction-free time.” Specifically, he plans to target the following items:

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Query and caching performance improvements to both BuddyPress and bbPress (to help them power the almost 20 million user profiles and the immense amount of activity going into them from all of the support forums)

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Media and Attachment support in BuddyPress

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Per-forum moderation in bbPress to help with plugin and theme moderation on WordPress.org.

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Progress on the sister projects has been slow, since current contributions are all volunteer-driven from folks who have other obligations. Jacoby was originally reluctant to attempt a fundraising campaign but recognizes the necessity of having the money available for distraction-free work. If the goal is not met, he will prorate the funds and will work in a dedicated capacity on the projects for as long as the funds allow.

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Within the first few hours of launching the campaign, Jacoby has already surpassed 20% of the goal. Check out the video and donate to the campaign if you want to support a talented developer in giving WordPress’ sister projects a chance to thrive.

A bit of controversy has surfaced regarding the ticket pricing, as LoopConf emerges as one of the most expensive WordPress-oriented conferences to date. With early bird tickets priced at $600 and regular tickets at $800, the combined sponsorship donations and estimated ticket sales have the potential to bring the total event budget just shy of a million dollars.

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Although events in this price range are not unheard of in the web industry, with many charging ticket prices in the thousands, WordPress-oriented conferences have traditionally been inexpensive. Because LoopConf is not endorsed by or affiliated with the WordPress Foundation, it doesn’t have to follow the guidelines set for WordCamps. Organizers of WP Foundation-sponsored events must agree to make the event “accessible to as many people as possible, regardless of financial status.”

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LoopConf ticket pricing poses a stark contrast to traditional WordPress-oriented events, drawing sharp criticism for catering to an elite segment of developers, while pricing out the vast majority of others in the community.

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So @loopconf tickets are $600 for early bird and $800 regular? Wow. Good luck with that. You just priced out 90% of the WP community.

Supporters of LoopConf ticket prices count it as a step forward in legitimizing WordPress as a mainstream career opportunity. Eric Mann, in a response piece titled WordPress Comes of Age, highlights the fact that some employers have been reluctant to pay for flights and accommodation for a conference with a $25-40 ticket price.

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@norcross@williamsba That might actually be a big step forward in legitimizing WP as a mainstream career opportunity.

I spoke with Brad Williams, one of the most vocal community members questioning the ticket prices, to find out if WebDevStudios would be sending any of its employees to LoopConf. “Most likely not, unfortunately,” he said. “It’s a lot of money even for an agency to cover without understanding the value of it.”

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Williams said he was not opposed to the conference, but that it’s tough to assess the value that an attendee will receive. “If it’s pricey, but justified, it might be worth sending some of our devs,” he said. “Honestly it’s tough to say because we could also send them to 10+ WordCamps for that price.”

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When LoopConf posted ticket prices, the email announcement said, “Think of it as more of a celebration of WordPress than a conference.” Without a full list of speakers and topics, aside from the generally well-known WordPress speakers featured on the homepage, onlookers are left scratching their heads.

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Amid controversy surrounding the high ticket prices, the organizers of the LoopConf posted a detailed FAQ section to the site to answer some of the public’s most pressing questions. The document helps to clarify what the organizers believe to be the value of the ticket price.

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When Ryan Sullivan set out to create a WordPress conference for developers, he had no idea that LoopConf would be pioneering a new segment of WordPress events. The organizing team, which includes a couple of experienced ng-conf organizers, was surprised to learn of the controversy surrounding the ticket pricing.

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Unlike a WordCamp, LoopConf is a for-profit endeavor and the team has no obligation to be financially transparent. “We won’t be publishing our budget,” Sullivan told the Tavern. “This is a for-profit endeavor but not to the degree most people think. Our margins are actually not very big, and basically cover our time and efforts for putting on the event itself.

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“Our number one goal is that everyone leaves feeling like it was a great investment, and if it ends up we risk a portion of our profits to make that a reality, then we’re fine with that.”

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He also doesn’t see any realistic way that the budget will reach a million dollars. “We are planning much more conservatively than that,” he said. What does he say to critics who believe the ticket prices to be exorbitant?

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The ticket price is for the experience itself. Compared to other tech conferences outside of WordPress our prices are actually average or below average. I wish I had a way to illustrate how amazing this event will be without just having to say “this event is going to be amazing”, but that’s where we’re at right now I suppose. From hack nights, to an amazing party, to swag, to meals, to a premier conference space at a secluded resort, we’re truly trying to deliver in every way we can. It’s going to be a fantastic place to learn and connect with friends and colleagues who have truly common interests.

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The LoopConf team hopes to announce speakers by Wednesday of this week. Of the 28 speakers lined up, Sullivan estimates that 6 or 7 will be from outside the WordPress community, with the majority of others having spoken previously at other WordPress events.

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“I think is important to mention is that even if these speakers have spoken at WordCamps before, it’s not likely they’ve given talks like they’ll be giving at LoopConf,” he said. “With a very developer focused audience a lot of these presenters will be able to give talks that they’re really excited about, which creates a very unique energy and environment for higher learning.”

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The conference structure is also very different from what one might expect of a WordCamp. LoopConf doesn’t have a team of volunteers supporting the event but instead utilizes a paid event coordinator to manage the majority of the logistics with the venue, vendors, sponsors, etc. Sullivan expects that he and the other organizers will have a few months of working 20-30 hours per week leading up to the event.

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Those who are unable to attend LoopConf can watch all sessions via a global live stream for free. Videos of the sessions will also be available within minutes after sessions are finished and will be offered for free to anyone who wants to learn from the event’s speakers.

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WordPress conferences that fall under the WordCamp name have traditionally been inexpensive events, designed to bring together a local community. Because Sullivan and his team are pioneering a different event structure, they have endured a healthy amount of criticism. The team’s goal to bring in top developers from the larger community would not be possible within the confines of a traditional WordCamp.

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Sullivan hopes that other conference organizers will also be inspired to break out of the box and host more unique events. “I would love to see more niche conferences that are WordPress specific. There are already great conferences out there like WooConf, Pressnomics, Prestige, and some others that I’m probably forgetting,” he said. “If there’s an opportunity to get together for a good time and learn from each other in the process, count me in.”

Mark Gibbs, who writes for NetworkWorld, published an article on how Ghost may one day scare WordPress off as the top publishing platform. Gibbs has some valid complaints with WordPress such as, plugins that don’t integrate with the menu system in a consistent way, incompatible themes, and the post editor.

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Although Ghost doesn’t have many of the same issues, I think it would if it was around for more than 10 years and its userbase was the size of WordPress. No software is perfect and in an open source environment, users are at the mercy of developers to provide updates to themes and plugins, an action that is not guaranteed.

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The Post Editor Comparison

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One of the most liked features of Ghost is the content editor. On the left, is the equivalent of the WordPress Text editor where you write content and can apply code via HTML or Markdown. On the right is a live preview that shows how content will look when it’s published. This single editor is like the WordPress Visual and Text editors combined.

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The editor is so well liked, several plugins exist that bring it to WordPress. Gust, MarkPress, and PrettyPress add a live preview pane to the WordPress post editor. Gibbs notes how the WordPress editor differs from Ghost, “In contrast to WordPress the ‘Visual’ view in the editor is a simple interpretation of the HTML so you have to save and preview content to see how it’s really rendered by the currently selected theme.” While true, there is a simple way around this pitfall.

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WordPress supports the ability for theme developers to link a custom stylesheet to the TinyMCE visual editor. It’s called editor-style.css and unfortunately, not many theme developers take advantage of this nifty feature. The stylesheet enables the visual editor to take on the look and feel of the frontend of the site, delivering a what you see is what you get experience. Stargazer by Justin Tadlock is an excellent example of how to use editor-style.css.

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Though the addition of editor-style.css doesn’t make the editor perfect, it vastly improves the writing experience. Having the content in the editor look the same as the final result is a huge convenience. Thanks to improved oEmbed previews in WordPress 4.0, the Visual editor is the default view when I write content.

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The Text editor still has its use, especially when a snafu occurs in the Visual editor but I think in the future, the Visual editor will improve to the point that the choice between Text and Visual will disappear. In the decisions not options approach, there will be one editor to rule them all. Between the custom stylesheet and improvements to the visual editor, I believe the writing experience in WordPress is superior to Ghost.

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The Ghost Dashboard

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One of the other highly touted features of Ghost is its beautiful, non-existent dashboard. Gibbs notes that themes and the backend of Ghost are fully responsive. A note to Gibbs that the backend of WordPress is also fully responsive. The following image from the project’s Kickstarter page was enough to convince some people to back the project.

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To this day, Ghost doesn’t have a dashboard but it’s coming. I admit, the concept images of the dashboard are pretty, colorful, and display information in squares instead of big rectangles. The question I have is whether the actual implementation will look anything like the screenshot.

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The WordPress Dashboard in comparison looks old but gives you the ability to arrange items the way you see fit. I’m not sure what can be done to make the dashboard pretty. With the eventual inclusion of the REST API to WordPress, we’ll likely see hundreds of different interpretations of not only the backend of WordPress, but the dashboard as well.

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Gibbs highlights the fact that the number of third-party themes for Ghost continues to increase. Meanwhile, there are those in the WordPress community who think themes have become a commodity. With WordPress now over 10 years old, there are plenty of free and commercial themes to choose from.

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Ghost has a marketplace available which lists free and commercial themes. The biggest difference between it and the WordPress Theme Directory is the inconsistent way of displaying and locating a theme. Ghost doesn’t have an official directory to host themes. Listing themes created by the community instead of hosting them takes away the ability to create a consistent user experience.

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When browsing themes on the marketplace, each listing takes you to a theme’s Github page, a site using the theme, a 404 page, or somewhere else on the web. While most of the Github pages for Ghost themes display information in a consistent manner, I prefer the browsing experience on the WordPress Theme Directory.

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With the WordPress Theme Directory, I trust what I’m downloading as the code has been vetted, especially if it’s a recent addition. Information containing the version number and the average rating is consistently in the same location. The preview link is an added bonus but previews need work as they don’t always accurately render a theme.

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Ghost is a Long Way From Scaring WordPress

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Gibbs ends his article by saying, Ghost “has to be one of the most powerful and best engineered blogging platforms ever.” While I think the jury is still out on whether it’s the best engineered platform available, there is so much that goes into the success of an open source publishing system that it alone won’t propel the platform past WordPress. Ghost has the luxury of a fresh start and the opportunity to build a rock solid foundation for the platform’s future. However, it’s going to take more than that to knock WordPress off its pedestal.

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In its current form, Ghost satisfies an audience that wants a simple, frictionless, publishing experience. Ghost delivers but without a robust third-party ecosystem, I don’t see how it will ever reach the same plateau of WordPress. That’s not to say Ghost can’t or won’t be a successful project, it’s just that I don’t see it being used on 20% of the web.

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It’s early and Ghost has a long way to go before it hits the pivotal 1.0 milestone. The items listed on the project’s roadmap indicate a lot of cool features are on the way. But for now, Ghost doesn’t have or do anything that WordPress should be afraid of.

Earlier this week, the first conference dedicated to WooCommerce took place and from all accounts, it was a success. Held at 969 Market in San Francisco, CA, over 300 people attended WooConf to learn about WooCommerce and eCommerce in general. While I didn’t attend the event, there are several people who have published their experience online.

In an interview on Torquemag, Mark Forrester, the co-founder of WooThemes hinted at WooConf becoming an annual event. “We’ve had loads of really positive feedback over the last couple days from a lot of the attendees (we sold out at 320 attendees) so there’s definitely good reason for a follow-up in 2015.”

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Earlier this year, there was some question as to whether the presentations would be recorded. The official Twitter account for WooThemes confirmed that sessions were recorded and will be released starting next week.

Beautiful Taxonomy Filters is a new plugin that adds filtering to your custom post type archives, based on taxonomy (terms/categories/tags). It allows visitors to filter CPTs by multiple terms on the frontend.

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The plugin automatically adds rewrite rules to create pretty filter URLs, without the use of JavaScript. Beautiful Taxonomy Filters was created by Swedish plugin developer Jonathan de Jong at the Tigerton web agency. He created it using the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate in order to structure the codebase with a standardized, object-oriented approach.

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The plugin uses select2 to replace ugly select boxes with attractive, user-friendly dropdowns. (If JavaScript is not supported it will fall back to the default select boxes.) Below is an example from my tests using the plugin with a standard portfolio custom post type:

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The plugin is capable of including as many filters as you want to include. However, if you have a post type with many different taxonimies, you may want to exclude ones that aren’t as useful for filtering.

Currently, Beautiful Taxonomy Filters does not support selecting multiple terms from the same taxonomy. This feature is on the roadmap. The plugin author notes that he hopes to support this in a future release and have beautiful permalinks. If the permalinks don’t work out, he plans to add an option where you can opt out of pretty permalinks in order to gain the power of multiple terms filtering.

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Beautiful Taxonomy Filters does not support the built-in “post” post type. This is because de Jong has not yet been able to create proper rewrite rules for the multiple filtering to work, due to the fact that they are handled differently by WordPress than other CPTs. If you’re looking for filtering on regular posts, you’ll need to build that yourself, as it’s not included.

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This plugin provides an easy way to add multiple taxonomy filters to custom post type archives. It’s convenient and easy to extend with roughly a dozen filters and actions available. I tested it and found the plugin to work as advertised. Download Beautiful Taxonomy Filters for free from WordPress.org.

Sync is a product from iThemes that makes it easy to manage multiple WordPress sites from a central location and is free to use for managing 10 sites or less. Using Sync, you can manage plugins, themes, users, comments, view site analytics, and log files. Similar to other WordPress remote management services, you need to have the Sync plugin installed on each site you want to manage. The plugin acts as a communication bridge between Sync and the site.

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Recently, a new feature called Client Dashboard was added to Sync Pro. With Client Dashboard, you can choose which parts of the backend are available to specific users. Hiding parts of the backend usually involves a lot of code, separate plugins, or knowing the proper permission levels for user roles. In Sync, configuring access to menus is as simple as checking a box.

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The following sections of the backend are able to be hidden from clients: Admin Menu, Admin Bar, Dashboard Widgets, and Admin Notices. One thing to keep in mind is that although you can hide menus, clients can still access hidden sections if they know the URL. By hiding admin notices generated by plugins, you prevent clients from accessing potentially hidden pages.

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As part of the client dashboard, you can enable Sync Stylesheet. The Sync Stylesheet adds spacing to items in the admin menu and increases the font size making it easier to read.

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Despite WordPress’ reputation as being easy to use, it can be intimidating to first time users. Removing things they don’t need access to in the backend can significantly ease confusion and frustration.

\nWordPress Simplified\n

I tested Sync on WordPress 4.0 and it works flawlessly. If you’re looking for a client management portal with the ability to control a client’s experience with WordPress, Sync Pro from iThemes is a great option.

\nThis post was contributed by Ryan Hellyer. He is from New Zealand, lives in Germany, and works as a full-time WordPress geek for Forsite Media in the Netherlands. He spends his time building WordPress plugins and getting up to mischief in his adopted home of Berlin.

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I have an issue with WordPress caching plugins. It’s not that I don’t like using them, or that they’re junk (most are, but that’s a separate issue). No, the problem is that most people don’t have the foggiest idea how WordPress handles caching internally, and what causes their site to run faster.

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Static page caching

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Most caching plugins do what is called static page caching. They cache a complete page, including all of it’s HTML. This is terrific, as it means that WordPress doesn’t need to regenerate the page every time someone visits it, but it means that those pages will be out of date sometimes when content is updated. Anyone who has used these plugins can usually attest to cursing at their site due to to the cache not updating when required.

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Object caching

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For a very long time, WordPress has had a caching system baked into it. Most WordPress developers I’ve met have no idea this exists. Some have used transients, which are a part of the WordPress caching API, but in my experience, very few developers properly understand how they work.

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By default, WordPress includes an internal caching system. If you use get_option( ‘something’ ); somewhere in your site, then run that same code later on in that page, WordPress will only need to load the data from the database once, as it caches it for use later on in the page load. It does this via the wp_cache_add(), wp_cache_set() and wp_cache_get() functions.

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Transients behave in a similar way, but by default can store the data for use in subsequent page views by storing them in the database. Storing information in the database is resource intensive though, so transients must be used sparingly to avoid hammering the database too hard and actually causing the site to slow down rather than speed up.

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What we need is the ability to store information in a persistent way (for use on more than the current page load), which can be written to and from extremely rapidly (unlike caching in the database).

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Persistent object caching

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Although the object caching system in WordPress was designed to only work on a single page load by default, the smart folks on the WordPress core team ensured that it was trivial to plug into this and provide a way to store data however you want and for as long as you want. Awesome!

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A normal WordPress plugin cannot be used to provide persistent object caching in WordPress. You need to manually create a drop-in file called object-cache.php, which sits in the wp-content folder. Some of the larger (bloated?) plugins, will automatically generate this drop-in file in your wp-content folder.

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Once installed, the object caching drop-in will cache anything utilizing the WordPress caching API. This includes transients, which will automatically stop using the default database layer and instead make use of whatever object caching back-end is available.

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Some of the earlier implementations of object-cache.php files for WordPress simply stored the data in the database, or in flat static files. But there are a multitude of better backends/places to store small pieces of data like this, and there are many different object caching drop-ins available for WordPress to hook into these various systems.

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In-memory data stores – ninja fast data storage

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MySQL is fast, but nothing compares to just throwing some data into RAM for maximum performance. With this in mind, many people who are much smarter than I, have developed systems for allowing us to store random bits of data in the server’s RAM. The most popular of these is Memcached, but there are others including APC and Redis which are very popular. Since they store their data in RAM (when possible) and are designed to be fast rather than reliable, they are insanely fast at both data storage and retrieval.

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With a database or flat file caching back-end, you can not refresh your cache rapidly, or store tiny bits of data. With an in-memory data store, those problems do not exist. For this reason, use of an in-memory data storage back-end can provide an enormous performance advantage to sites using them in conjunction with the WordPress object caching API.

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To make use of one of these, simply ensure that Redis, Memcached or APC are installed on your server, then install one of their corresponding drop-in files (you have to get the correct one or all hell will break loose).

Once you have an appropriate object caching drop-in installed, you should notice an immediate increase in performance. WordPress caches a lot of data internally and none of that will need to be queried on every page load.

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It is entirely normal to see a stock WordPress installation go from 20+ MySQL queries per page down to 4 queries, as the object caching backend takes care of storing all of the data which does not change between page loads. The WordPress API always attempts to refresh the cache when required; there are some instances in which this does not work perfectly, but it is usually a flawless cache refreshing process.

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Faster static page caching

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There are ways to serve and refresh static page caching plugins via the WordPress object caching system too, including via the Batcache plugin, provided by the kind folks at Automattic. This is beyond the scope of this blog post, but it is worth investigating if you also require static page caching.

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Conclusion

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Caching within WordPress is complex. Object caching is a vital tool for your toolbox, as it can provide a huge performance improvement without requiring you to resort to full page caching.

Twitter announced today that it has open sourced Twemoji, a set of 872 emoji characters. This means that emoji characters tweeted from phones will now be visible on the web and will look the same across all platforms. Twitter also partnered with Automattic to bring emoji to WordPress.com, and users can start adding emoji to posts right away.

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Adding emoji to content is fairly easy and intuitive when done from a mobile device. On desktop, you might need a cheat sheet. Mac users can type Command + Control + Space while in a text editor. Windows 8+ users can make use of the touch keyboard, which includes emoji support.

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Twitter’s announcement is major advance for emoji users worldwide, given that inconsistent emoji display across platforms has long been a sore issue.

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The Jetpack team is already busy adding emoji support so that self-hosted sites can also utilize them. However, any plugin developer can create a plugin that adds Twemoji to WordPress using the Twemoji API. If you have a self-hosted WordPress site and don’t use Jetpack, the WP Emoji One plugin is another option for adding emoji support to your site.

In this week’s edition of WordPress Weekly, Marcus Couch and I get you caught up with the news you need to know. We discuss the changes in Jetpack 3.2, WordSesh 3, and a recent security vulnerability in WP eCommerce. We also discuss whether or not WordPress is a verb.

Plugins Picked By Marcus:

Beautiful taxonomy filters is an easy and good-looking way to provide visitors with filtering for post types. With this plugin, you get a complete solution for adding filtering based on taxonomy terms/categories/tags.

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Network Menu Copier allows you to bulk copy menus between sites on a network which are using the same theme. This is a great plugin for those who repeatedly create the same menus.

Many WordPress developers have adopted Vagrant as part of their toolbox for creating development environments, due to the fact that it’s relatively lightweight and makes collaborative work much easier. Varying Vagrant Vagrants is one of the most popular Vagrant configurations for WordPress, but there are many others out there tailored to different uses, i.e. Chassis, VagrantPress, Salty WordPress, and VIP Quickstart, to name a few.

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Vagrant Manager is a new tool for OS X that gives you a UI for managing all of your virtual machines in one place, no matter what kind of Vagrant configuration(s) you have running. Its convenient toolbar gives you access to all your VMs with the ability to execute commands.

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Vagrant Manager’s primary features include:

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Indicators for running/halted VM’s: on (green), off (red), suspended (orange)

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Execute vagrant commands: hover over a VM and select a command from the dropdown

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Customization options available through the preferences pane: set preferences for launch, how VMs are displayed, refresh interval, etc.

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Multi-Machine Support: run actions against one machine or all of them at once

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Adding Vagrant Manager is actually much easier than setting up a new Vagrant configuration. After you download it, Vagrant Manager automatically detects VirtualBox and Parallels machines. Any vagrant machines that you want it to detect must already be initialized. If you don’t see a machine in the list, simply run vagrant init on it. Machines will disappear from your list once destroyed, so you might want to add a bookmark in Vagrant Manager for quick access later.

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The preferences pane lets you select your Terminal preference, change the icon theme for the status bar, launch at login, and show/hide various counts/notifications.

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Certainly, you don’t need a UI for managing your VMs, but it gives you a nice visual overview of all your machines in one centralized place. If you’re like me, and you constantly forget which machines you have running, this utility is a convenient addition to your menu bar. Vagrant Manager was released under the MIT License. Download it for free from GitHub.

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Conserve scarce resources: drivers are always in demand. If yours is dead you may get a smaller one that will still do the job. If three of yours died we may provide you with only one or two to run your project.

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If your wire gets ripped out of your driver, take out the batteries. A driver that is on, with no wire attached, will burn out and be ruined.

\r\n

Do not make tight turns or knots in EL Wire or tighten zip-ties onto EL Wire too tightly. The very fine corona wires inside the EL Wire\'s vinyl coating are very fragile and will break easily. The wire will stop glowing or be dim at the first break (at best) or will short out and burn out your driver (at worst).

\r\n

Use a good technique when Terminating EL wire (e.g. using copper foil, heat shrink tubing and hot-melt glue.) Poor terminations fail and the diagnosis and repair often takes far longer than it would have taken to do it better to begin with.

\r\n

Every segment of EL Wire should have its own connector -- never daisy-chain segments. Soldering one wire to the end of the previous one may save you a few pennies on connectors, but it will cost you potentially hours of frustration trying to debug your project, and reusing segments will be inconvenient at best. If each segment has its own connector finding which segments are shorted is trivial! You don\'t have to start cutting wires to isolate shorts.

\r\n

EL Wire Projects are fragile -- handle with care. If you\'re just winding EL Wire around your bike, do that after you arrive on the playa, and remove it before you go home. Store fun-lights in plastic bags after wrapping the wire around your hand. Store clothing in flip-top boxes. Store larger projects in boxes that protect the wire.

\r\n

If you discover a short in a piece of wire, clip off about 1/8\" from the end with a sharp scissors. It is not uncommon for the end to be the location of the short circuit, and in any case it is easy to do and won\'t harm the wire. If the short isn\'t there, it is probably at the termination itself... which probably wouldn\'t have happened at all if a good termination technique was used.

\r\n','EL Wire Tips and Tricks','','publish','open','closed','','el-wire-tips-and-tricks','','','2012-03-25 12:59:53','2012-03-25 12:59:53','',19,'http://nosefish.org/?page_id=21',3030,'page','',0),(22,1,'2011-09-18 02:19:30','2011-09-18 02:19:30','We\'ve learned a lot over the past two years repairing EL Wire on the Playa. Here\'s some tips you can consider:\n\n

If your wire gets ripped out of your driver, take out the batteries. A driver that is on, with no wire attached, will burn out and be ruined.

\n

Do not make tight turns or knots in EL Wire or tighten zip-ties onto EL Wire too tightly. The very fine corona wire inside the EL Wire\'s vinyl coating are very fragile and will break easily.

\n','EL Wire Tips and Tricks','','inherit','open','open','','21-revision','','','2011-09-18 02:19:30','2011-09-18 02:19:30','',21,'http://nosefish.org/?p=22',0,'revision','',0),(23,1,'2011-09-18 02:24:13','2011-09-18 02:24:13','We\'ve learned a lot over the past two years repairing EL Wire on the Playa. Here\'s some tips you can consider:\n\n

If your wire gets ripped out of your driver, take out the batteries. A driver that is on, with no wire attached, will burn out and be ruined.

\n

Do not make tight turns or knots in EL Wire or tighten zip-ties onto EL Wire too tightly. The very fine corona wires inside the EL Wire\'s vinyl coating are very fragile and will break easily. The wire will stop glowing or be dim at the first break (at best) or will short out and burn out your driver (at worst).

\n

Use a good technique (e.g. using copper foil, heat shrink tubing and hot-melt glue) when Terminating EL wire. Poor terminations fail and the diagnosis and repair often takes far longer than it would have taken to do it better to begin with.

\n

Every segment of EL Wire should have its own connector -- never daisy-chain segments. Soldering one wire to the end of the previous one may save you a few pennies on connectors, but it will cost you potentially hours of frustration trying to debug your project, and reusing segments will be inconvenient at best. If each segment has its own connector finding which segments are shorted is trivial! You don

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If your wire gets ripped out of your driver, take out the batteries. A driver that is on, with no wire attached, will burn out and be ruined.

\n

Do not make tight turns or knots in EL Wire or tighten zip-ties onto EL Wire too tightly. The very fine corona wires inside the EL Wire\'s vinyl coating are very fragile and will break easily. The wire will stop glowing or be dim at the first break (at best) or will short out and burn out your driver (at worst).

\n

Use a good technique when Terminating EL wire (e.g. using copper foil, heat shrink tubing and hot-melt glue.) Poor terminations fail and the diagnosis and repair often takes far longer than it would have taken to do it better to begin with.

\n

Every segment of EL Wire should have its own connector -- never daisy-chain segments. Soldering one wire to the end of the previous one may save you a few pennies on connectors, but it will cost you potentially hours of frustration trying to debug your project, and reusing segments will be inconvenient at best. If each segment has its own connector finding which segments are shorted is trivial! You don\'t have to start cutting wires to isolate shorts.

\n

EL Wire Projects are fragile -- handle with care. If you\'re just winding EL Wire around your bike, do that after you arrive on the playa, and remove it before you go home. Store fun-lights in plastic bags after wrapping the wire around your hand. Store clothing in flip-top boxes. Store larger projects in boxes that protect the wire.

\n','EL Wire Tips and Tricks','','inherit','open','open','','21-revision-3','','','2011-09-18 02:27:57','2011-09-18 02:27:57','',21,'http://nosefish.org/?p=24',0,'revision','',0),(25,1,'2011-09-18 02:29:20','2011-09-18 02:29:20','We’ve learned a lot over the past two years repairing EL Wire on the Playa. Here’s some tips you can consider:\r\n\r\n If your wire gets ripped out of your driver, take out the batteries. A driver that is on, with no wire attached, will burn out and be ruined.\r\n Do not make tight turns or knots in EL Wire or tighten zip-ties onto EL Wire too tightly. The very fine corona wires inside the EL Wire’s vinyl coating are very fragile and will break easily. The wire will stop glowing or be dim at the first break (at best) or will short out and burn out your driver (at worst).\r\n Use a good technique when Terminating EL wire (e.g. using copper foil, heat shrink tubing and hot-melt glue.) Poor terminations fail and the diagnosis and repair often takes far longer than it would have taken to do it better to begin with.\r\n Every segment of EL Wire should have its own connector — never daisy-chain segments. Soldering one wire to the end of the previous one may save you a few pennies on connectors, but it will cost you potentially hours of frustration trying to debug your project, and reusing segments will be inconvenient at best. If each segment has its own connector finding which segments are shorted is trivial! You don’t have to start cutting wires to isolate shorts.\r\n EL Wire Projects are fragile — handle with care. If you’re just winding EL Wire around your bike, do that after you arrive on the playa, and remove it before you go home. Store fun-lights in plastic bags after wrapping the wire around your hand. Store clothing in flip-top boxes. Store larger projects in boxes that protect the wire.\r\n','','','publish','open','open','','25','','','2011-09-18 02:29:20','2011-09-18 02:29:20','',0,'http://nosefish.org/?p=25',1,'nav_menu_item','',0),(26,1,'2011-09-18 02:29:20','2011-09-18 02:29:20','There are literally miles of EL Wire at Burning Man. No matter how many technicians we have or how many hours we stay open we probably cannot provide enough service for all needs. Also, while our main benefactor, Benny at http://www.coolneon.com has been immensely generous and provided us a lot of drivers and wire, we’ll never have enough drivers to replace all the ones people break or which fail in the desert. So, we have to have some priorities to guide us through the decision process for what to do and for whom.\r\n\r\nOur priorities are:\r\n\r\n Get more people and bikes lit at night: more people lit at all is better than fewer people lit more brightly\r\n Respect the Art: if you put a lot of time into your project, we’re more likely to want to put more time into it as well\r\n Help more people: there’s a lot of people in line behind you… what’s the fastest way to help and still do a quality job?\r\n Conserve scarce resources: drivers are always in demand. If yours is dead you may get a smaller one that will still do the job. If three of yours died we may provide you with only one or two to run your project.\r\n','','','publish','open','open','','26','','','2011-09-18 02:29:20','2011-09-18 02:29:20','',0,'http://nosefish.org/?p=26',2,'nav_menu_item','',0),(27,1,'2011-09-18 02:29:20','2011-09-18 02:29:20','Camp Nosefish will provide four EL Wire repair stations. Three will be reserved for technicians and one will be made available to Burning Man participants who would like to attempt their own repair.\r\n\r\nEach workstation will have:\r\n\r\n A high quality soldering iron with sponge and stand\r\n A known-good driver and known-good battery cage\r\n A known-good EL Wire Fish and a longer length of known-good wire for testing drivers\r\n A collection of gender and manufacturer adaptors\r\n A kludge wire with alligator clips\r\n Copper foil, heat-shrink tubing, termination connectors, solder\r\n A continuity tester or VOM with continuity tester\r\n A good scissors\r\n A good wire stripper\r\n A “third hand”\r\n Electrical tape, zip ties\r\n\r\nEach pair of adjacent workstations will share a hot-melt glue gun and a hot-air gun.\r\n\r\nThe 2011 volunteers excelled at reaching over each other, sharing scarce resources like the “known good driver,” and finding tools and materials in what can only be described as a “heap.” In 2012 the goal is to make volunteering an exercise in customer service and not a combination of “where’s waldo” and “twister.”','','','publish','open','open','','27','','','2011-09-18 02:29:20','2011-09-18 02:29:20','',0,'http://nosefish.org/?p=27',4,'nav_menu_item','',0),(28,1,'2011-09-18 02:29:20','2011-09-18 02:29:20','The Nosefish EL Wire Service for 2012 and beyond will be operated by a team consisting of a foreman, one or more technicians and a line manager.\r\n\r\nThe foreman is responsible for the team and will also be a technician. A technician is someone able to diagnose and repair EL Wire-related problems.\r\n\r\nThe line manager is someone who interacts with people in line, supports the technicians and closes the line when the service is over for the day.\r\n\r\nDifferent people will be on the team each day.','','','publish','open','open','','28','','','2011-09-18 02:29:20','2011-09-18 02:29:20','',0,'http://nosefish.org/?p=28',3,'nav_menu_item','',0),(30,1,'2011-09-18 01:58:22','2011-09-18 01:58:22','The Nosefish EL Wire Service for 2012 and beyond will be operated by a team consisting of a foreman, one or more technicians and a line manager.\r\n\r\nThe foreman is responsible for the team and will also be a technician. A technician is someone able to diagnose and repair EL Wire-related problems.\r\n\r\nThe line manager is someone who interacts with people in line, supports the technicians and closes the line when the service is over for the day.\r\n\r\nDifferent people will be on the team each day.','EL Wire Team','','inherit','open','open','','15-revision-2','','','2011-09-18 01:58:22','2011-09-18 01:58:22','',15,'http://nosefish.org/?p=30',0,'revision','',0),(31,1,'2011-09-18 02:07:55','2011-09-18 02:07:55','Camp Nosefish will provide four EL Wire repair stations. Three will be reserved for technicians and one will be made available to Burning Man participants who would like to attempt their own repair.\r\n\r\nEach workstation will have:\r\n

\r\n

A high quality soldering iron with sponge and stand

\r\n

A known-good driver and known-good battery cage

\r\n

A known-good EL Wire Fish and a longer length of known-good wire for testing drivers

\r\n

A collection of gender and manufacturer adaptors

\r\n

A kludge wire with alligator clips

\r\n

Copper foil, heat-shrink tubing, termination connectors, solder

\r\n

A continuity tester or VOM with continuity tester

\r\n

A good scissors

\r\n

A good wire stripper

\r\n

A \"third hand\"

\r\n

Electrical tape, zip ties

\r\n

\r\nEach pair of adjacent workstations will share a hot-melt glue gun and a hot-air gun.\r\n\r\nThe 2011 volunteers excelled at reaching over each other, sharing scarce resources like the \"known good driver,\" and finding tools and materials in what can only be described as a \"heap.\" In 2012 the goal is to make volunteering an exercise in customer service and not a combination of \"where\'s waldo\" and \"twister.\"','Workstations','','inherit','open','open','','17-revision-2','','','2011-09-18 02:07:55','2011-09-18 02:07:55','',17,'http://nosefish.org/?p=31',0,'revision','',0),(32,1,'2011-09-18 02:27:58','2011-09-18 02:27:58','We\'ve learned a lot over the past two years repairing EL Wire on the Playa. Here\'s some tips you can consider:\r\n\r\n

If your wire gets ripped out of your driver, take out the batteries. A driver that is on, with no wire attached, will burn out and be ruined.

\r\n

Do not make tight turns or knots in EL Wire or tighten zip-ties onto EL Wire too tightly. The very fine corona wires inside the EL Wire\'s vinyl coating are very fragile and will break easily. The wire will stop glowing or be dim at the first break (at best) or will short out and burn out your driver (at worst).

\r\n

Use a good technique when Terminating EL wire (e.g. using copper foil, heat shrink tubing and hot-melt glue.) Poor terminations fail and the diagnosis and repair often takes far longer than it would have taken to do it better to begin with.

\r\n

Every segment of EL Wire should have its own connector -- never daisy-chain segments. Soldering one wire to the end of the previous one may save you a few pennies on connectors, but it will cost you potentially hours of frustration trying to debug your project, and reusing segments will be inconvenient at best. If each segment has its own connector finding which segments are shorted is trivial! You don\'t have to start cutting wires to isolate shorts.

\r\n

EL Wire Projects are fragile -- handle with care. If you\'re just winding EL Wire around your bike, do that after you arrive on the playa, and remove it before you go home. Store fun-lights in plastic bags after wrapping the wire around your hand. Store clothing in flip-top boxes. Store larger projects in boxes that protect the wire.

\r\n','EL Wire Tips and Tricks','','inherit','open','open','','21-revision-4','','','2011-09-18 02:27:58','2011-09-18 02:27:58','',21,'http://nosefish.org/?p=32',0,'revision','',0),(33,1,'2011-09-18 02:16:24','2011-09-18 02:16:24','There are literally miles of EL Wire at Burning Man. No matter how many technicians we have or how many hours we stay open we probably cannot provide enough service for all needs. Also, while our main benefactor, Benny at http://www.coolneon.com has been immensely generous and provided us a lot of drivers and wire, we\'ll never have enough drivers to replace all the ones people break or which fail in the desert. So, we have to have some priorities to guide us through the decision process for what to do and for whom.\r\n\r\nOur priorities are:\r\n\r\n

Get more people and bikes lit at night: more people lit at all is better than fewer people lit more brightly

\r\n

Respect the Art: if you put a lot of time into your project, we\'re more likely to want to put more time into it as well

\r\n

Help more people: there\'s a lot of people in line behind you... what\'s the fastest way to help and still do a quality job?

\r\n

Conserve scarce resources: drivers are always in demand. If yours is dead you may get a smaller one that will still do the job. If three of yours died we may provide you with only one or two to run your project.

\r\n','Nosefish EL Wire Services','','inherit','open','open','','19-revision-2','','','2011-09-18 02:16:24','2011-09-18 02:16:24','',19,'http://nosefish.org/?p=33',0,'revision','',0),(34,1,'2011-09-18 01:35:45','2011-09-18 01:35:45','Welcome to the Nosefish.org home page.\r\n\r\nCamp Nose Fish has been since 2003. We\'ve won \"Camp of the Day\" three times because of our commitment to green practices and providing fun, interactive experiences or services to the Burning Man community.\r\n\r\nBeginning in 2010 Nose Fish began providing EL Wire repair on the playa. The 2010 service was just two hours per day and was operated only by Howard Cohen. In 2011 camp members and volunteers swelled the ranks of technicians and service was provided for five days, five hours each day (11a-4p).\r\n\r\nIn 2011 Nose Fish will be back at Burning Man with a better organized, better equipped EL Wire repair service. And, probably quesadillas too.\r\n\r\n','Welcome to Nosefish.org','','inherit','open','open','','4-revision-4','','','2011-09-18 01:35:45','2011-09-18 01:35:45','',4,'http://nosefish.org/?p=34',0,'revision','',0),(35,1,'2011-09-18 02:37:53','2011-09-18 02:37:53','Welcome to the Nosefish.org home page.\r\n\r\nCamp Nose Fish has been since 2003. We\'ve won \"Camp of the Day\" three times because of our commitment to green practices and providing fun, interactive experiences or services to the Burning Man community.\r\n\r\nBeginning in 2010 Nose Fish began providing EL Wire repair on the playa. The 2010 service was just two hours per day and was operated only by Howard Cohen. In 2011 camp members and volunteers swelled the ranks of technicians and service was provided for five days, five hours each day (11a-4p). Both years we were equipped with EL Wire, drivers, connectors and many miscellaneous tools and materials by Benny at coolneon.com without whom there would be no EL Wire service on the playa, or probably much EL Wire at all on the playa, to be honest.\r\n\r\nIn 2011 Nose Fish will be back at Burning Man with a better organized, better equipped EL Wire repair service. And, probably quesadillas too.\r\n\r\n','Welcome to Nosefish.org','','inherit','open','open','','4-revision-5','','','2011-09-18 02:37:53','2011-09-18 02:37:53','',4,'http://nosefish.org/?p=35',0,'revision','',0),(36,1,'2011-09-18 02:39:13','2011-09-18 02:39:13','Welcome to the Nosefish.org home page.\r\n\r\nCamp Nose Fish has been since 2003. We\'ve won \"Camp of the Day\" three times because of our commitment to green practices and providing fun, interactive experiences or services to the Burning Man community.\r\n\r\nBeginning in 2010 Nose Fish began providing EL Wire repair on the playa. The 2010 service was just two hours per day and was operated only by Howard Cohen. In 2011 camp members and volunteers swelled the ranks of technicians and service was provided for five days, five hours each day (11a-4p). Both years we were equipped with EL Wire, drivers, connectors and many miscellaneous tools and materials by Benny at coolneon.com without whom there would be no EL Wire service on the playa, or probably much EL Wire at all on the playa, to be honest.\r\n\r\nIn 2011 Nose Fish will be back at Burning Man with a better organized, better equipped EL Wire repair service. And, probably quesadillas too.\r\n\r\n','Welcome to Nosefish.org','','inherit','open','open','','4-revision-6','','','2011-09-18 02:39:13','2011-09-18 02:39:13','',4,'http://nosefish.org/?p=36',0,'revision','',0),(37,11,'2012-03-25 11:59:07','2012-03-25 11:59:07','We\'ve learned a lot over the past two years repairing EL Wire on the Playa. Here\'s some tips you can consider:\r\n\r\n

If your wire gets ripped out of your driver, take out the batteries. A driver that is on, with no wire attached, will burn out and be ruined.

\r\n

Do not make tight turns or knots in EL Wire or tighten zip-ties onto EL Wire too tightly. The very fine corona wires inside the EL Wire\'s vinyl coating are very fragile and will break easily. The wire will stop glowing or be dim at the first break (at best) or will short out and burn out your driver (at worst).

\r\n

Use a good technique when Terminating EL wire (e.g. using copper foil, heat shrink tubing and hot-melt glue.) Poor terminations fail and the diagnosis and repair often takes far longer than it would have taken to do it better to begin with.

\r\n

Every segment of EL Wire should have its own connector -- never daisy-chain segments. Soldering one wire to the end of the previous one may save you a few pennies on connectors, but it will cost you potentially hours of frustration trying to debug your project, and reusing segments will be inconvenient at best. If each segment has its own connector finding which segments are shorted is trivial! You don\'t have to start cutting wires to isolate shorts.

\r\n

EL Wire Projects are fragile -- handle with care. If you\'re just winding EL Wire around your bike, do that after you arrive on the playa, and remove it before you go home. Store fun-lights in plastic bags after wrapping the wire around your hand. Store clothing in flip-top boxes. Store larger projects in boxes that protect the wire.

\r\n

If you discover a short in a piece of wire, clip off about 1/8\" from the end with a sharp scissors. It is not uncommon for the end to be the location of the short circuit, and in any case it is easy to do and won\'t harm the wire. If the short isn\'t there, it is probably at the termination itself... which probably wouldn\'t have happened at all if a good termination technique was used.

\r\n','EL Wire Tips and Tricks','','inherit','open','open','','21-autosave','','','2012-03-25 11:59:07','2012-03-25 11:59:07','',21,'http://nosefish.org/?p=37',0,'revision','',0),(38,1,'2011-09-18 02:34:11','2011-09-18 02:34:11','We\'ve learned a lot over the past two years repairing EL Wire on the Playa. Here\'s some tips you can consider:\r\n\r\n

If your wire gets ripped out of your driver, take out the batteries. A driver that is on, with no wire attached, will burn out and be ruined.

\r\n

Do not make tight turns or knots in EL Wire or tighten zip-ties onto EL Wire too tightly. The very fine corona wires inside the EL Wire\'s vinyl coating are very fragile and will break easily. The wire will stop glowing or be dim at the first break (at best) or will short out and burn out your driver (at worst).

\r\n

Use a good technique when Terminating EL wire (e.g. using copper foil, heat shrink tubing and hot-melt glue.) Poor terminations fail and the diagnosis and repair often takes far longer than it would have taken to do it better to begin with.

\r\n

Every segment of EL Wire should have its own connector -- never daisy-chain segments. Soldering one wire to the end of the previous one may save you a few pennies on connectors, but it will cost you potentially hours of frustration trying to debug your project, and reusing segments will be inconvenient at best. If each segment has its own connector finding which segments are shorted is trivial! You don\'t have to start cutting wires to isolate shorts.

\r\n

EL Wire Projects are fragile -- handle with care. If you\'re just winding EL Wire around your bike, do that after you arrive on the playa, and remove it before you go home. Store fun-lights in plastic bags after wrapping the wire around your hand. Store clothing in flip-top boxes. Store larger projects in boxes that protect the wire.

\r\n','EL Wire Tips and Tricks','','inherit','open','open','','21-revision-5','','','2011-09-18 02:34:11','2011-09-18 02:34:11','',21,'http://nosefish.org/?p=38',0,'revision','',0),(39,11,'2013-04-25 04:26:21','2013-04-25 04:26:21','Camp Nosefish will provide four EL Wire repair stations. Three will be reserved for technicians and one will be made available to Burning Man participants who would like to attempt their own repair.\n\nEach workstation will have:\n

\n

A high quality soldering iron with sponge and stand

\n

A known-good driver and known-good battery cage

\n

A known-good EL Wire Fish and a longer length of known-good wire for testing drivers

\n

A collection of gender and manufacturer adaptors

\n

A kludge wire with alligator clips (this is a piece of wire that ends in driver-side EL Wire connectors on one end, wire-side on the other and in the middle of each wire is an alligator clip for making connections to wire or driver raw wires.)

\n

Copper foil, heat-shrink tubing, termination connectors, solder

\n

A continuity tester or VOM with continuity tester

\n

A good scissors

\n

A good wire stripper

\n

A \"third hand\"

\n

Electrical tape, zip ties

\n

\nEach pair of adjacent workstations will share a hot-melt glue gun and a hot-air gun.\n\nThe 2011 volunteers excelled at reaching over each other, sharing scarce resources like the \"known good driver,\" and finding tools and materials in what can only be described as a \"heap.\" In 2012 the goal is to make volunteering an exercise in customer service and not a combination of \"where\'s waldo\" and \"twister.\"','Workstations','','inherit','open','open','','17-autosave','','','2013-04-25 04:26:21','2013-04-25 04:26:21','',17,'http://nosefish.org/?p=39',0,'revision','',0),(40,1,'2011-09-18 02:33:25','2011-09-18 02:33:25','Camp Nosefish will provide four EL Wire repair stations. Three will be reserved for technicians and one will be made available to Burning Man participants who would like to attempt their own repair.\r\n\r\nEach workstation will have:\r\n

\r\n

A high quality soldering iron with sponge and stand

\r\n

A known-good driver and known-good battery cage

\r\n

A known-good EL Wire Fish and a longer length of known-good wire for testing drivers

\r\n

A collection of gender and manufacturer adaptors

\r\n

A kludge wire with alligator clips

\r\n

Copper foil, heat-shrink tubing, termination connectors, solder

\r\n

A continuity tester or VOM with continuity tester

\r\n

A good scissors

\r\n

A good wire stripper

\r\n

A \"third hand\"

\r\n

Electrical tape, zip ties

\r\n

\r\nEach pair of adjacent workstations will share a hot-melt glue gun and a hot-air gun.\r\n\r\nThe 2011 volunteers excelled at reaching over each other, sharing scarce resources like the \"known good driver,\" and finding tools and materials in what can only be described as a \"heap.\" In 2012 the goal is to make volunteering an exercise in customer service and not a combination of \"where\'s waldo\" and \"twister.\"','Workstations','','inherit','open','open','','17-revision-3','','','2011-09-18 02:33:25','2011-09-18 02:33:25','',17,'http://nosefish.org/?p=40',0,'revision','',0),(41,1,'2011-09-18 01:51:57','2011-09-18 01:51:57','I\'ve decided to try my hand at wordpress for the nosefish.org web site. Mainly, I think I want to have a site where people can collaborate, and wordpress seems to be a reasonable way to create one.','Hello world!','','inherit','open','open','','1-revision-2','','','2011-09-18 01:51:57','2011-09-18 01:51:57','',1,'http://nosefish.org/?p=41',0,'revision','',0),(42,1,'2011-09-18 02:40:49','2011-09-18 02:40:49','Welcome to the Nosefish.org home page.\r\n\r\nCamp Nose Fish has been since 2003. We\'ve won \"Camp of the Day\" three times because of our commitment to green practices and providing fun, interactive experiences or services to the Burning Man community.\r\n\r\nBeginning in 2010 Nose Fish began providing EL Wire repair on the playa. The 2010 service was just two hours per day and was operated only by Howard Cohen. In 2011 camp members and volunteers swelled the ranks of technicians and service was provided for five days, five hours each day (11a-4p). We learned a lot about what can go wrong with EL Wire on the playa -- read our Tips and Tricks Page!\r\n\r\nBoth years we were equipped with EL Wire, drivers, connectors and many miscellaneous tools and materials by Benny at coolneon.com without whom there would be no EL Wire service on the playa, or probably much EL Wire at all on the playa, to be honest.\r\n\r\nIn 2011 Nose Fish will be back at Burning Man with a better organized, better equipped EL Wire repair service. And, probably quesadillas too.\r\n\r\n','Welcome to Nosefish.org','','inherit','open','open','','4-revision-7','','','2011-09-18 02:40:49','2011-09-18 02:40:49','',4,'http://nosefish.org/?p=42',0,'revision','',0),(44,1,'2011-09-18 03:07:02','2011-09-18 03:07:02','The nosefish shower was designed by Howard Cohen in 2006 and has been built and used by countless burners since then. It is simply a shower on a short platform built at a slight angle and with a hole in the lowest part, so the shower water can be collected. Then it is easy to bring home or filter and treat and then sprinkle on the playa. All the details are at:\r\n

\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_46\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"540\" caption=\"The first Nosefish Shower circa 2006\"][/caption]','Nosefish Shower','','publish','open','closed','','nosefish-shower','','','2012-03-25 13:00:09','2012-03-25 13:00:09','',48,'http://nosefish.org/?page_id=44',2010,'page','',0),(43,1,'2011-09-18 02:51:56','2011-09-18 02:51:56','Welcome to the Nosefish.org home page.\r\n\r\nCamp Nose Fish has been since 2003. We\'ve won \"Camp of the Day\" three times because of our commitment to green practices and providing fun, interactive experiences or services to the Burning Man community.\r\n\r\nBeginning in 2010 Nose Fish began providing EL Wire repair on the playa. The 2010 service was just two hours per day and was operated only by Howard Cohen. In 2011 camp members and volunteers swelled the ranks of technicians and service was provided for five days, five hours each day (11a-4p). We learned a lot about what can go wrong with EL Wire on the playa -- read our Tips and Tricks Page!\r\n\r\nBoth years we were equipped with EL Wire, drivers, connectors and many miscellaneous tools and materials by Benny at coolneon.com without whom there would be no EL Wire service on the playa, or probably much EL Wire at all on the playa, to be honest.\r\n\r\nIn 2011 Nose Fish will be back at Burning Man with a better organized, better equipped EL Wire repair service. And, probably quesadillas too.\r\n\r\nPlease contact me at hoco@nosefish.org if you\'d like to have a user account in this web site so that you can add content.\r\n\r\n','Welcome to Nosefish.org','','inherit','open','open','','4-revision-8','','','2011-09-18 02:51:56','2011-09-18 02:51:56','',4,'http://nosefish.org/?p=43',0,'revision','',0),(45,1,'2011-09-18 03:03:49','2011-09-18 03:03:49','This shower allows you to catch the shower water so it can be stored or treated. Don\'t dump shower water on the playa!','nosefishshower','The first Nosefish Shower, circa 2006','inherit','open','open','','nosefishshower','','','2011-09-18 03:03:49','2011-09-18 03:03:49','',44,'http://nosefish.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/nosefishshower.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(46,1,'2011-09-18 03:05:52','2011-09-18 03:05:52','The nosefish shower makes it easy to catch the shower water before it hits the ground, so you can store or treat it. Don\'t dump shower water on the playa!','nosefishshower','The first Nosefish Shower circa 2006','inherit','open','open','','nosefishshower-2','','','2011-09-18 03:05:52','2011-09-18 03:05:52','',44,'http://nosefish.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/nosefishshower1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(47,1,'2011-09-18 03:05:43','2011-09-18 03:05:43','The nosefish shower was designed by Howard Cohen in 2006 and has been built and used by countless burners since then. It is simply a shower on a short platform built at a slight angle and with a hole in the lowest part, so the shower water can be collected. Then it is easy to bring home or filter and treat and then sprinkle on the playa. All the details are at:\n

\n ','Nosefish Shower','','inherit','open','open','','44-revision','','','2011-09-18 03:05:43','2011-09-18 03:05:43','',44,'http://nosefish.org/?p=47',0,'revision','',0),(48,1,'2011-09-18 03:46:48','2011-09-18 03:46:48','Over the years Camp Nosefish has been the home of some innovative projects including:\r\n

\r\nWe do stuff and we learn from the process. Sometimes we document what we learn or what we create.\r\n\r\nBefore there was a Camp Nosefish I went to Burning Man three times. Each time involved projects and learning. Here\'s some more content from that era:\r\n

','Other Projects','','publish','open','closed','','nosefish-projects','','','2013-04-23 02:10:24','2013-04-23 02:10:24','',0,'http://nosefish.org/?page_id=48',5000,'page','',0),(49,1,'2011-09-18 03:42:13','2011-09-18 03:42:13','Over the years Camp Nosefish has been the home of some innovative projects including:\n

\nWe do stuff and we learn from the process. Sometimes we document what we learn or what we create.\n\nBefore there was a Camp Nosefish I went to Burning Man three times. Each time involved projects and learning. Here\'s some more content from that era:\n

','Nosefish Projects','','inherit','open','open','','48-revision','','','2011-09-18 03:42:13','2011-09-18 03:42:13','',48,'http://nosefish.org/?p=49',0,'revision','',0),(50,1,'2011-09-18 03:46:39','2011-09-18 03:46:39','Over the years Camp Nosefish has been the home of some innovative projects including:\n

\nWe do stuff and we learn from the process. Sometimes we document what we learn or what we create.\n\nBefore there was a Camp Nosefish I went to Burning Man three times. Each time involved projects and learning. Here\'s some more content from that era:\n

','Nosefish Projects','','inherit','open','open','','48-revision-2','','','2011-09-18 03:46:39','2011-09-18 03:46:39','',48,'http://nosefish.org/?p=50',0,'revision','',0),(51,1,'2011-09-18 03:07:02','2011-09-18 03:07:02','The nosefish shower was designed by Howard Cohen in 2006 and has been built and used by countless burners since then. It is simply a shower on a short platform built at a slight angle and with a hole in the lowest part, so the shower water can be collected. Then it is easy to bring home or filter and treat and then sprinkle on the playa. All the details are at:\r\n

\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_46\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"540\" caption=\"The first Nosefish Shower circa 2006\"][/caption]','Nosefish Shower','','inherit','open','open','','44-revision-2','','','2011-09-18 03:07:02','2011-09-18 03:07:02','',44,'http://nosefish.org/?p=51',0,'revision','',0),(52,1,'2011-09-18 03:46:48','2011-09-18 03:46:48','Over the years Camp Nosefish has been the home of some innovative projects including:\r\n

\r\nWe do stuff and we learn from the process. Sometimes we document what we learn or what we create.\r\n\r\nBefore there was a Camp Nosefish I went to Burning Man three times. Each time involved projects and learning. Here\'s some more content from that era:\r\n

','Nosefish Projects','','inherit','open','open','','48-revision-3','','','2011-09-18 03:46:48','2011-09-18 03:46:48','',48,'http://nosefish.org/?p=52',0,'revision','',0),(53,1,'2011-09-18 02:50:53','2011-09-18 02:50:53','I\'ve decided to try my hand at wordpress for the nosefish.org web site. Mainly, I think I want to have a site where people can collaborate, and wordpress seems to be a reasonable way to create one.','Nosefish.org lives!','','inherit','open','open','','1-revision-3','','','2011-09-18 02:50:53','2011-09-18 02:50:53','',1,'http://nosefish.org/?p=53',0,'revision','',0),(60,11,'2012-03-23 21:56:21','2012-03-23 21:56:21','http://nosefish.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/cropped-Tree-of-Life.jpg','cropped-Tree-of-Life.jpg','','inherit','closed','open','','cropped-tree-of-life-jpg','','','2012-03-23 21:56:21','2012-03-23 21:56:21','',0,'http://nosefish.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/cropped-Tree-of-Life.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(98,11,'2012-04-10 18:04:11','2012-04-10 18:04:11','Camp Nose Fish is thrilled to be returning to Black Rock City in 2012! Once again we are offering EL wire repair during the day to help keep the participants of the city and their projects safe and visible after dark. Also, we\'ll be bringing back by popular demand nightly quesadilla service, to provide weary citizens with some salty cheesy goodness to nourish their bodies and souls.\r\n\r\nAlso Camp Nose Fish will continue to bring quality art projects to the playa with the return of the MEZ screen as well as new projects to delight all. Stay tuned to this space for more details!','Nosefish 2012 - Great things to come!','','publish','closed','closed','','nosefish-2012-great-things-to-come','','','2014-11-22 01:29:46','2014-11-22 01:29:46','',0,'http://nosefish.org/?p=98',0,'post','',0),(61,11,'2011-09-18 02:43:03','2011-09-18 02:43:03','We\'ve learned a lot over the past two years repairing EL Wire on the Playa. Here\'s some tips you can consider:\r\n\r\n

If your wire gets ripped out of your driver, take out the batteries. A driver that is on, with no wire attached, will burn out and be ruined.

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Do not make tight turns or knots in EL Wire or tighten zip-ties onto EL Wire too tightly. The very fine corona wires inside the EL Wire\'s vinyl coating are very fragile and will break easily. The wire will stop glowing or be dim at the first break (at best) or will short out and burn out your driver (at worst).

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Use a good technique when Terminating EL wire (e.g. using copper foil, heat shrink tubing and hot-melt glue.) Poor terminations fail and the diagnosis and repair often takes far longer than it would have taken to do it better to begin with.

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Every segment of EL Wire should have its own connector -- never daisy-chain segments. Soldering one wire to the end of the previous one may save you a few pennies on connectors, but it will cost you potentially hours of frustration trying to debug your project, and reusing segments will be inconvenient at best. If each segment has its own connector finding which segments are shorted is trivial! You don\'t have to start cutting wires to isolate shorts.

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EL Wire Projects are fragile -- handle with care. If you\'re just winding EL Wire around your bike, do that after you arrive on the playa, and remove it before you go home. Store fun-lights in plastic bags after wrapping the wire around your hand. Store clothing in flip-top boxes. Store larger projects in boxes that protect the wire.

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If you discover a short in a piece of wire, clip off about 1/8\" from the end with a sharp scissors. It is not uncommon for the end to be the location of the short circuit, and in any case it is easy to do and won\'t harm the wire. If the short isn\'t there, it is probably at the termination itself... which probably wouldn\'t have happened at all if a good termination technique was used.

\r\n','EL Wire Tips and Tricks','','inherit','open','open','','21-revision-6','','','2011-09-18 02:43:03','2011-09-18 02:43:03','',21,'http://nosefish.org/?p=61',0,'revision','',0),(62,11,'2011-09-18 02:46:06','2011-09-18 02:46:06','Camp Nosefish will provide four EL Wire repair stations. Three will be reserved for technicians and one will be made available to Burning Man participants who would like to attempt their own repair.\r\n\r\nEach workstation will have:\r\n

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A high quality soldering iron with sponge and stand

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A known-good driver and known-good battery cage

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A known-good EL Wire Fish and a longer length of known-good wire for testing drivers

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A collection of gender and manufacturer adaptors

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A kludge wire with alligator clips (this is a piece of wire that ends in driver-side EL Wire connectors on one end, wire-side on the other and in the middle of each wire is an alligator clip for making connections to wire or driver raw wires.)

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Copper foil, heat-shrink tubing, termination connectors, solder

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A continuity tester or VOM with continuity tester

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A good scissors

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A good wire stripper

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A \"third hand\"

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Electrical tape, zip ties

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\r\nEach pair of adjacent workstations will share a hot-melt glue gun and a hot-air gun.\r\n\r\nThe 2011 volunteers excelled at reaching over each other, sharing scarce resources like the \"known good driver,\" and finding tools and materials in what can only be described as a \"heap.\" In 2012 the goal is to make volunteering an exercise in customer service and not a combination of \"where\'s waldo\" and \"twister.\"','Workstations','','inherit','open','open','','17-revision-4','','','2011-09-18 02:46:06','2011-09-18 02:46:06','',17,'http://nosefish.org/?p=62',0,'revision','',0),(63,11,'2012-03-25 12:12:08','2012-03-25 12:12:08','Camp Nosefish has been present on the playa since 2003. The history of our camp from 2003-2010 can be found here.\r\n\r\nIn 2011, Nosefish expanded our EL Wire Repair services to include more hours and more opportunities for participants of Black Rock City to help other burners repair their EL Wire projects. We were honored to be named an LNT model camp by the Earth Guardians. We also served up warm, delicious quesadillas at night so the denizens of BRC had some food in their bellies before a night of adventures on the playa.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n ','History of Camp Nosefish','','publish','open','closed','','history-of-camp-nosefish','','','2012-03-25 13:00:26','2012-03-25 13:00:26','',4,'http://nosefish.org/?page_id=63',1010,'page','',0),(64,11,'2012-03-25 12:11:39','2012-03-25 12:11:39','Camp Nosefish has been present on the playa since 2003. The history of our camp from 2003-2010 can be found here.\n\nIn 2011, Nosefish expanded our EL Wire Repair services to include more hours and more opportunities for participants of Black Rock City to help other burners repair their EL Wire projects. We were honored to be named an LNT model camp by the Earth Guardians. 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We all see taking care of the playa as our personal responsibility. We will all help each other remember and fulfil this commitment.\r\n\r\nWe\'ve been an Earth Guardian \"Model Camp\" in 2004, 2005, and 2006 and we won \"Camp of the Day\" in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2010, and 2011. The Earth Guardians have helped us refine our practices and we\'ve embraced many of their suggestions.\r\n\r\nOur holistic approach is to not make a mess in the first place! We\'ll bring less and store it better. We\'ll make it easier for anyone else in our camp to secure our stuff rather than relying on luck to ensure that someone gets someone else\'s stuff secured during a storm. We\'re ready for a storm whenever it happens. That coupled with our normal vigilance will mean less time spent cleaning up for everyone and less chances of debris blowing away that someone else will have to clean up for us.\r\n\r\nResponsibility\r\n\r\nEllyn Bush is our LNT expert and main liaison with the Earth Guardians. She is committed to overseeing all LNT practices in the camp and ensuring that all camp members comply with our cleanup plan from our initial arrival on the playa until we all leave. Ellyn is also our Recycling Guru, who ensures we all recycle what can be recycled.\r\n\r\nLess is More\r\n\r\nOur philosophy is: less is more\r\n\r\nWe bring less stuff that doesn\'t matter and spend more time enjoying Burning Man. We\'ll certainly bring fun stuff like costumes, domes, camping equipment, art projects, etc., that allow us to interact with our fellow citizens of BRC. And we\'ll bring things to keep ourselves comfortable and well-fed regardless of the conditions. Of course we\'ll have tools and a few extra materials -- we have to anticipate the unexpected to reasonably balance the will of the desert. But we\'re making a conscious effort to bring less and do more with it.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n ','Our LNT commitment','','publish','open','closed','','our-lnt-commitment','','','2013-04-25 01:08:31','2013-04-25 01:08:31','',0,'http://nosefish.org/?page_id=72',4000,'page','',0),(73,11,'2012-03-25 12:22:59','2012-03-25 12:22:59','','IMG_1329','','inherit','open','open','','img_1329','','','2012-03-25 12:22:59','2012-03-25 12:22:59','',72,'http://nosefish.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/2010-camp.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(74,11,'2012-03-25 12:37:04','2012-03-25 12:37:04','Camp nosefish has won the Earth Guardians \"Camp of the Day\" award 5 times (2004, 2005, 2006, 2010, and 2011).\n\n \n\n \n\n ','Our LNT commitment','','inherit','open','open','','72-revision','','','2012-03-25 12:37:04','2012-03-25 12:37:04','',72,'http://nosefish.org/?p=74',0,'revision','',0),(75,11,'2012-03-25 12:38:07','2012-03-25 12:38:07','Our Leave-no-trace plan is our mutual commitment to a Burning Man experience with zero-impact on the playa. We all see taking care of the playa as our personal responsibility. We will all help each other remember and fulfil this commitment.\n\nWe\'ve been an Earth Guardian \"Model Camp\" in 2004, 2005, and 2006 and we won \"Camp of the Day\" in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2010, and 2011. The Earth Guardians have helped us refine our practices and we\'ve embraced many of their suggestions.\n\nOur holistic approach is to not make a mess in the first place! We\'ll bring less and store it better. We\'ll make it easier for anyone else in our camp to secure our stuff rather than relying on luck to ensure that someone gets someone else\'s stuff secured during a storm. We\'re ready for a storm whenever it happens. That coupled with our normal vigilance will mean less time spent cleaning up for everyone and less chances of debris blowing away that someone else will have to clean up for us.\n\nResponsibility\n\nLaura Szymanski is our LNT expert and main liaison with the Earth Guardians. She is committed to overseeing all LNT practices in the camp and ensuring that all camp members comply with our cleanup plan from our initial arrival on the playa until we all leave. Laura is also our Recycling Guru, who ensures we all recycle what can be recycled.\n\n \n\n \n\n ','Our LNT commitment','','inherit','open','open','','72-revision-2','','','2012-03-25 12:38:07','2012-03-25 12:38:07','',72,'http://nosefish.org/?p=75',0,'revision','',0),(76,11,'2012-03-25 12:47:20','2012-03-25 12:47:20','We had some special challenges this year because of our Quesadilla! and EL Wire Repair servies. Here\'s our plan for managing them:\r\n

\r\n

We will have a floor on combined Quesadilla! and EL Wire Repair Dome (aka the service dome) to catch any spills, bits of wire and other soldering debris.

\r\n

We\'ll have a wind screen around the service dome to keep wind from blowing freely through it. The windscreen will come all the way to the ground, so that any materials and supplies inside the dome cannot escape simply by blowing along the ground.

\r\n

We are planning for extra space in our vehicles for the return trip so we have room for whatever moop we collect as well as the inevitable debris people leave in our public spaces. We\'re planning from the beginning for the moop we\'ll have at the end.

\r\n

\r\nPersonal Containment Domes\r\n\r\nThis year we have two large, covered shared domes and one personal dome. The domes will be covered with tarps in a manner that makes it easy to secure in a hurry by any of our camp members when there is a windstorm. One of the shared domes acts as our combined kitchen and storage area. The other is our camp\'s private lounge area. These areas will be protected from wind so that debris does not blow away using wind cloth. All of our domes have tarps on the floor to protect the playa from spills and to keep debris from getting ground into the playa.\r\n\r\nPeople will keep their items either in the kitchen dome or in their tents or vehicles.\r\n\r\nThe bottom line is that everyone in our camp has a place to keep their stuff so it won\'t blow away, whether they are there to protect it or not. Someone is always at our camp, and anyone in our camp will be able to close all the domes or tents quickly.','Dome Sweet Dome','','publish','open','closed','','dome-sweet-dome','','','2012-03-25 13:00:45','2012-03-25 13:00:45','',72,'http://nosefish.org/?page_id=76',4020,'page','',0),(77,11,'2012-03-25 12:46:59','2012-03-25 12:46:59','We had some special challenges this year because of our Quesadilla! and EL Wire Repair servies. Here\'s our plan for managing them:\n

\n

We will have a floor on combined Quesadilla! and EL Wire Repair Dome (aka the service dome) to catch any spills, bits of wire and other soldering debris.

\n

We\'ll have a wind screen around the service dome to keep wind from blowing freely through it. The windscreen will come all the way to the ground, so that any materials and supplies inside the dome cannot escape simply by blowing along the ground.

\n

We are planning for extra space in our vehicles for the return trip so we have room for whatever moop we collect as well as the inevitable debris people leave in our public spaces. We\'re planning from the beginning for the moop we\'ll have at the end.

\n

\nPersonal Containment Domes\n\nThis year we have two large, covered shared domes and one personal dome. The domes will be covered with tarps in a manner that makes it easy to secure in a hurry by any of our camp members when there is a windstorm. One of the shared domes acts as our combined kitchen and storage area. The other is our camp\'s private lounge area. These areas will be protected from wind so that debris does not blow away using wind cloth. All of our domes have tarps on the floor to protect the playa from spills and to keep debris from getting ground into the playa.\n\nPeople will keep their items either in the kitchen dome or in their tents or vehicles.\n\nThe bottom line is that everyone in our camp has a place to keep their stuff so it won\'t blow away, whether they are there to protect it or not. Someone is always at our camp, and anyone in our camp will be able to close all the domes or tents quickly.','Dome Sweet Dome','','inherit','open','open','','76-revision','','','2012-03-25 12:46:59','2012-03-25 12:46:59','',76,'http://nosefish.org/?p=77',0,'revision','',0),(78,11,'2012-03-25 12:47:00','2012-03-25 12:47:00','We had some special challenges this year because of our Quesadilla! and EL Wire Repair servies. Here\'s our plan for managing them:\r\n

\r\n

We will have a floor on combined Quesadilla! and EL Wire Repair Dome (aka the service dome) to catch any spills, bits of wire and other soldering debris.

\r\n

We\'ll have a wind screen around the service dome to keep wind from blowing freely through it. The windscreen will come all the way to the ground, so that any materials and supplies inside the dome cannot escape simply by blowing along the ground.

\r\n

We are planning for extra space in our vehicles for the return trip so we have room for whatever moop we collect as well as the inevitable debris people leave in our public spaces. We\'re planning from the beginning for the moop we\'ll have at the end.

\r\n

\r\nPersonal Containment Domes\r\n\r\nThis year we have two large, covered shared domes and one personal dome. The domes will be covered with tarps in a manner that makes it easy to secure in a hurry by any of our camp members when there is a windstorm. One of the shared domes acts as our combined kitchen and storage area. The other is our camp\'s private lounge area. These areas will be protected from wind so that debris does not blow away using wind cloth. All of our domes have tarps on the floor to protect the playa from spills and to keep debris from getting ground into the playa.\r\n\r\nPeople will keep their items either in the kitchen dome or in their tents or vehicles.\r\n\r\nThe bottom line is that everyone in our camp has a place to keep their stuff so it won\'t blow away, whether they are there to protect it or not. Someone is always at our camp, and anyone in our camp will be able to close all the domes or tents quickly.','Dome Sweet Dome','','inherit','open','open','','76-revision-2','','','2012-03-25 12:47:00','2012-03-25 12:47:00','',76,'http://nosefish.org/?p=78',0,'revision','',0),(79,11,'2012-03-25 12:49:05','2012-03-25 12:49:05','

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Minimize packaging before we go to Burning Man

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Not dump untreated graywater on the playa or in the porta-potties (gray water = shower water, dish water)

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Not spit toothpaste on the playa

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Use porta-potties exactly and only for body waste. Toothpaste is OK in the porta-pottie (if you can get past the idea of brushing your teeth in an outhouse)

\r\n

Not burn anything on the playa. Use a burn platform for burnable debris (paper, wood), or a Burning Man approved firepit.

\r\n

Not dig holes in the playa except as required to secure a structure (e.g. for rebar).

\r\n

Not bring any of the following:

\r\n

\r\n

pistachios or any other nuts in shells

\r\n

feather boas or other clothing with bits that can come off in the wind

\r\n

loose glitter or glitter glued to artwork unless it is sealed with a clearcoat (e.g. clear krylon spraypaint).

\r\n

confetti or anything like it! Bad! No!!

\r\n

clothing or artwork with bits that always fly off in the wind

\r\n

individually wrapped candies (generates lots of tiny trash)

\r\n

meaningless schwag -- our gift to the community is our theme camp and our projects. We won\'t be giving away tiny trinkets. We believe in a gift economy -- not a barter economy. We don\'t need extra things to trade. We are always well-stocked with tools and supplies, and we offer their use freely without any expectation for anything in return. Well, we\'d like our tools returned... ;-)

\r\n

\r\n

Collect all our everything (trash, equipment, etc.) and take it away from Burning Man

\r\n

Clean up our personal camp space, including all debris, rebar stakes in the ground, etc. We promise to ask for help if we can\'t get a piece of rebar out -- our camp has tools to get the job done.

\r\n

Keep our gear inside our domes, vehicles and tents and be ready to close them up in case of a storm.

\r\n

At the onset of any storm, secure the domes and tents as quickly as possible.

\r\n

Secure our own domes if we know we and everyone who lives in it with us will be away on an adventure.

\r\n\r\nOpportunities to even the score\r\n\r\nThe truth is that despite our best efforts some of our debris will blow away, or some gift we give someone will end up releasing or becoming debris. So we need to actively look for opportunities to even the score before we can achieve anything close to zero net impact.\r\n

\r\n

We Pick up MOOP (matter-out-of-place) wherever we see it

\r\n

We find a gentle way to raise the awareness of anyone else who litters. Maybe just smile and say \"Here, let me pick that up for you.\"

\r\n

We bring a trashbag sometimes when we go adventuring.

\r\n

\r\nCamp Responsibilities\r\n\r\nA group of us will remain until the final day of Burning Man. Those that do will comprise the final camp cleanup team. The cleanup team has the responsibility to complete the cleanup of our camp. At that point it should not be a huge amount of work because every one of us will have cleaned up our own area. We are each of us the cleanup team for our own camping spot.\r\n\r\nThe cleanup team will:\r\n

\r\n

Make a shoulder-to-shoulder sweep of the entire camp and our annex camp if we have one. We will pick up anything that isn\'t playa or a black rock.

\r\n

Rake and scrape the surface of our camp to help remove dust covered debris and even out any unnatural piles and fill small holes. We also sweep the entire camp with a magnetic bar attached to the back of the rake, to pick up nuts and bolts, etc.

\r\n

\r\nHandling Gray Water\r\n\r\nWe collect all our treatable gray water and treat it with a combination of filtration and chemicals, so it is safe and sane to pour on the roads. We collect the rest of our gray and waste water and bring it back to an RV park where we dump it in an appropriate sewer for proper water treatment. Untreatable gray water includes shower water that may contain glitter or body paint, kitchen water, etc. We bring 5-gallon buckets with lids to contain our gray water. WE ABSOLUTELY NEVER POUR OUR GRAY WATER IN THE PORTA-POTTIES!! We only treat shower water that is free of glitter and body paint. We collect gray water separately from each shower, so we can make a choice on a shower-by-shower basis as to whether the gray water is treatable or not. Click here for complete details on our water handling technique.\r\n\r\nHandling Garbage\r\n\r\nWe use heavy-duty garbage bags to contain the lighter duty \"kitchen\" bags we use in our domes and tents. We secure our large garbage bags inside our kitchen dome, or in the small storage dome, to prevent any chance of their blowing away. We also try to minimize how much trash we do produce, by minimizing packaging, using crushable packaging, buying in bulk, etc.\r\n\r\nAs operators of an interactive venue at Burning Man, we end up carting out far more garbage than that which we create ourselves. Especially in the last few days we end up with more than our fair share of debris we didn\'t create. We always leave extra room in our vehicles for the return trip so we can take away this extra debris, which we take to the dump.','Things We All Do','','publish','open','closed','','things-we-all-do','','','2012-03-25 13:00:51','2012-03-25 13:00:51','',72,'http://nosefish.org/?page_id=79',4010,'page','',0),(80,11,'2012-03-25 12:48:30','2012-03-25 12:48:30','

\n

Minimize packaging before we go to Burning Man

\n

Not dump untreated graywater on the playa or in the porta-potties (gray water = shower water, dish water)

\n

Not spit toothpaste on the playa

\n

Use porta-potties exactly and only for body waste. Toothpaste is OK in the porta-pottie (if you can get past the idea of brushing your teeth in an outhouse)

\n

Not burn anything on the playa. Use a burn platform for burnable debris (paper, wood), or a Burning Man approved firepit.

\n

Not dig holes in the playa except as required to secure a structure (e.g. for rebar).

\n

Not bring any of the following:

\n

\n

pistachios or any other nuts in shells

\n

feather boas or other clothing with bits that can come off in the wind

\n

loose glitter or glitter glued to artwork unless it is sealed with a clearcoat (e.g. clear krylon spraypaint).

\n

confetti or anything like it! Bad! No!!

\n

clothing or artwork with bits that always fly off in the wind

\n

individually wrapped candies (generates lots of tiny trash)

\n

meaningless schwag -- our gift to the community is our theme camp and our projects. We won\'t be giving away tiny trinkets. We believe in a gift economy -- not a barter economy. We don\'t need extra things to trade. We are always well-stocked with tools and supplies, and we offer their use freely without any expectation for anything in return. Well, we\'d like our tools returned... ;-)

\n

\n

Collect all our everything (trash, equipment, etc.) and take it away from Burning Man

\n

Clean up our personal camp space, including all debris, rebar stakes in the ground, etc. We promise to ask for help if we can\'t get a piece of rebar out -- our camp has tools to get the job done.

\n

Keep our gear inside our domes, vehicles and tents and be ready to close them up in case of a storm.

\n

At the onset of any storm, secure the domes and tents as quickly as possible.

\n

Secure our own domes if we know we and everyone who lives in it with us will be away on an adventure.

\n\nOpportunities to even the score\n\nThe truth is that despite our best efforts some of our debris will blow away, or some gift we give someone will end up releasing or becoming debris. So we need to actively look for opportunities to even the score before we can achieve anything close to zero net impact.\n

\n

We Pick up MOOP (matter-out-of-place) wherever we see it

\n

We find a gentle way to raise the awareness of anyone else who litters. Maybe just smile and say \"Here, let me pick that up for you.\"

\n

We bring a trashbag sometimes when we go adventuring.

\n

\nCamp Responsibilities\n\nA group of us will remain until the final day of Burning Man. Those that do will comprise the final camp cleanup team. The cleanup team has the responsibility to complete the cleanup of our camp. At that point it should not be a huge amount of work because every one of us will have cleaned up our own area. We are each of us the cleanup team for our own camping spot.\n\nThe cleanup team will:\n

\n

Make a shoulder-to-shoulder sweep of the entire camp and our annex camp if we have one. We will pick up anything that isn\'t playa or a black rock.

\n

Rake and scrape the surface of our camp to help remove dust covered debris and even out any unnatural piles and fill small holes. We also sweep the entire camp with a magnetic bar attached to the back of the rake, to pick up nuts and bolts, etc.

\n

\nHandling Gray Water\n\nWe collect all our treatable gray water and treat it with a combination of filtration and chemicals, so it is safe and sane to pour on the roads. We collect the rest of our gray and waste water and bring it back to an RV park where we dump it in an appropriate sewer for proper water treatment. Untreatable gray water includes shower water that may contain glitter or body paint, kitchen water, etc. We bring 5-gallon buckets with lids to contain our gray water. WE ABSOLUTELY NEVER POUR OUR GRAY WATER IN THE PORTA-POTTIES!! We only treat shower water that is free of glitter and body paint. We collect gray water separately from each shower, so we can make a choice on a shower-by-shower basis as to whether the gray water is treatable or not. Click here for complete details on our water handling technique.\n\nHandling Garbage\n\nWe use heavy-duty garbage bags to contain the lighter duty \"kitchen\" bags we use in our domes and tents. We secure our large garbage bags inside our kitchen dome, or in the small storage dome, to prevent any chance of their blowing away. We also try to minimize how much trash we do produce, by minimizing packaging, using crushable packaging, buying in bulk, etc.\n\nAs operators of an interactive venue at Burning Man, we end up carting out far more garbage than that which we create ourselves. Especially in the last few days we end up with more than our fair share of debris we didn\'t create. We always leave extra room in our vehicles for the return trip so we can take away this extra debris, which we take to the dump.','Things We All Do','','inherit','open','open','','79-revision','','','2012-03-25 12:48:30','2012-03-25 12:48:30','',79,'http://nosefish.org/?p=80',0,'revision','',0),(81,11,'2012-03-25 12:41:46','2012-03-25 12:41:46','Our Leave-no-trace plan is our mutual commitment to a Burning Man experience with zero-impact on the playa. We all see taking care of the playa as our personal responsibility. We will all help each other remember and fulfil this commitment.\r\n\r\nWe\'ve been an Earth Guardian \"Model Camp\" in 2004, 2005, and 2006 and we won \"Camp of the Day\" in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2010, and 2011. The Earth Guardians have helped us refine our practices and we\'ve embraced many of their suggestions.\r\n\r\nOur holistic approach is to not make a mess in the first place! We\'ll bring less and store it better. We\'ll make it easier for anyone else in our camp to secure our stuff rather than relying on luck to ensure that someone gets someone else\'s stuff secured during a storm. We\'re ready for a storm whenever it happens. That coupled with our normal vigilance will mean less time spent cleaning up for everyone and less chances of debris blowing away that someone else will have to clean up for us.\r\n\r\nResponsibility\r\n\r\nLaura Szymanski is our LNT expert and main liaison with the Earth Guardians. She is committed to overseeing all LNT practices in the camp and ensuring that all camp members comply with our cleanup plan from our initial arrival on the playa until we all leave. Laura is also our Recycling Guru, who ensures we all recycle what can be recycled.\r\n\r\nLess is More\r\n\r\nOur philosophy is: less is more\r\n\r\nWe bring less stuff that doesn\'t matter and spend more time enjoying Burning Man. We\'ll certainly bring fun stuff like costumes, domes, camping equipment, art projects, etc., that allow us to interact with our fellow citizens of BRC. And we\'ll bring things to keep ourselves comfortable and well-fed regardless of the conditions. Of course we\'ll have tools and a few extra materials -- we have to anticipate the unexpected to reasonably balance the will of the desert. But we\'re making a conscious effort to bring less and do more with it.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n ','Our LNT commitment','','inherit','open','open','','72-revision-3','','','2012-03-25 12:41:46','2012-03-25 12:41:46','',72,'http://nosefish.org/?p=81',0,'revision','',0),(82,11,'2011-09-18 02:52:09','2011-09-18 02:52:09','Welcome to the Nosefish.org home page.\r\n\r\nCamp Nose Fish has been since 2003. We\'ve won \"Camp of the Day\" three times because of our commitment to green practices and providing fun, interactive experiences or services to the Burning Man community.\r\n\r\nBeginning in 2010 Nose Fish began providing EL Wire repair on the playa. The 2010 service was just two hours per day and was operated only by Howard Cohen. In 2011 camp members and volunteers swelled the ranks of technicians and service was provided for five days, five hours each day (11a-4p). We learned a lot about what can go wrong with EL Wire on the playa -- read our Tips and Tricks Page!\r\n\r\nBoth years we were equipped with EL Wire, drivers, connectors and many miscellaneous tools and materials by Benny at coolneon.com without whom there would be no EL Wire service on the playa, or probably much EL Wire at all on the playa, to be honest.\r\n\r\nIn 2011 Nose Fish will be back at Burning Man with a better organized, better equipped EL Wire repair service. And, probably quesadillas too.\r\n\r\n','Welcome to Nosefish.org','','inherit','open','open','','4-revision-9','','','2011-09-18 02:52:09','2011-09-18 02:52:09','',4,'http://nosefish.org/?p=82',0,'revision','',0),(83,11,'2012-03-25 12:12:08','2012-03-25 12:12:08','Camp Nosefish has been present on the playa since 2003. The history of our camp from 2003-2010 can be found here.\r\n\r\nIn 2011, Nosefish expanded our EL Wire Repair services to include more hours and more opportunities for participants of Black Rock City to help other burners repair their EL Wire projects. We were honored to be named an LNT model camp by the Earth Guardians. We also served up warm, delicious quesadillas at night so the denizens of BRC had some food in their bellies before a night of adventures on the playa.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n ','History of Camp Nosefish','','inherit','open','open','','63-revision-2','','','2012-03-25 12:12:08','2012-03-25 12:12:08','',63,'http://nosefish.org/?p=83',0,'revision','',0),(86,11,'2011-09-18 03:48:48','2011-09-18 03:48:48','Over the years Camp Nosefish has been the home of some innovative projects including:\r\n

\r\nWe do stuff and we learn from the process. Sometimes we document what we learn or what we create.\r\n\r\nBefore there was a Camp Nosefish I went to Burning Man three times. Each time involved projects and learning. Here\'s some more content from that era:\r\n

','Nosefish Projects','','inherit','open','open','','48-revision-4','','','2011-09-18 03:48:48','2011-09-18 03:48:48','',48,'http://nosefish.org/?p=86',0,'revision','',0),(87,11,'2011-09-18 02:34:29','2011-09-18 02:34:29','There are literally miles of EL Wire at Burning Man. No matter how many technicians we have or how many hours we stay open we probably cannot provide enough service for all needs. Also, while our main benefactor, Benny at http://www.coolneon.com has been immensely generous and provided us a lot of drivers and wire, we\'ll never have enough drivers to replace all the ones people break or which fail in the desert. So, we have to have some priorities to guide us through the decision process for what to do and for whom.\r\n\r\nOur priorities are:\r\n\r\n

Get more people and bikes lit at night: more people lit at all is better than fewer people lit more brightly

\r\n

Respect the Art: if you put a lot of time into your project, we\'re more likely to want to put more time into it as well

\r\n

Help more people: there\'s a lot of people in line behind you... what\'s the fastest way to help and still do a quality job?

\r\n

Conserve scarce resources: drivers are always in demand. If yours is dead you may get a smaller one that will still do the job. If three of yours died we may provide you with only one or two to run your project.

\r\n','Nosefish EL Wire Services','','inherit','open','open','','19-revision-3','','','2011-09-18 02:34:29','2011-09-18 02:34:29','',19,'http://nosefish.org/?p=87',0,'revision','',0),(88,11,'2011-09-18 02:32:52','2011-09-18 02:32:52','The Nosefish EL Wire Service for 2012 and beyond will be operated by a team consisting of a foreman, one or more technicians and a line manager.\r\n\r\nThe foreman is responsible for the team and will also be a technician. A technician is someone able to diagnose and repair EL Wire-related problems.\r\n\r\nThe line manager is someone who interacts with people in line, supports the technicians and closes the line when the service is over for the day.\r\n\r\nDifferent people will be on the team each day.','EL Wire Team','','inherit','open','open','','15-revision-3','','','2011-09-18 02:32:52','2011-09-18 02:32:52','',15,'http://nosefish.org/?p=88',0,'revision','',0),(89,11,'2012-03-25 12:59:25','2012-03-25 12:59:25','The Nosefish EL Wire Service for 2012 and beyond will be operated by a team consisting of a foreman, one or more technicians and a line manager.\r\n\r\nThe foreman is responsible for the team and will also be a technician. A technician is someone able to diagnose and repair EL Wire-related problems.\r\n\r\nThe line manager is someone who interacts with people in line, supports the technicians and closes the line when the service is over for the day.\r\n\r\nDifferent people will be on the team each day.','EL Wire Team','','inherit','open','open','','15-revision-4','','','2012-03-25 12:59:25','2012-03-25 12:59:25','',15,'http://nosefish.org/?p=89',0,'revision','',0),(90,11,'2012-03-25 12:00:25','2012-03-25 12:00:25','Camp Nosefish will provide four EL Wire repair stations. Three will be reserved for technicians and one will be made available to Burning Man participants who would like to attempt their own repair.\r\n\r\nEach workstation will have:\r\n

\r\n

A high quality soldering iron with sponge and stand

\r\n

A known-good driver and known-good battery cage

\r\n

A known-good EL Wire Fish and a longer length of known-good wire for testing drivers

\r\n

A collection of gender and manufacturer adaptors

\r\n

A kludge wire with alligator clips (this is a piece of wire that ends in driver-side EL Wire connectors on one end, wire-side on the other and in the middle of each wire is an alligator clip for making connections to wire or driver raw wires.)

\r\n

Copper foil, heat-shrink tubing, termination connectors, solder

\r\n

A continuity tester or VOM with continuity tester

\r\n

A good scissors

\r\n

A good wire stripper

\r\n

A \"third hand\"

\r\n

Electrical tape, zip ties

\r\n

\r\nEach pair of adjacent workstations will share a hot-melt glue gun and a hot-air gun.\r\n\r\nThe 2011 volunteers excelled at reaching over each other, sharing scarce resources like the \"known good driver,\" and finding tools and materials in what can only be described as a \"heap.\" In 2012 the goal is to make volunteering an exercise in customer service and not a combination of \"where\'s waldo\" and \"twister.\"','Workstations','','inherit','open','open','','17-revision-5','','','2012-03-25 12:00:25','2012-03-25 12:00:25','',17,'http://nosefish.org/?p=90',0,'revision','',0),(91,11,'2012-03-25 11:59:32','2012-03-25 11:59:32','We\'ve learned a lot over the past two years repairing EL Wire on the Playa. Here\'s some tips you can consider:\r\n\r\n

If your wire gets ripped out of your driver, take out the batteries. A driver that is on, with no wire attached, will burn out and be ruined.

\r\n

Do not make tight turns or knots in EL Wire or tighten zip-ties onto EL Wire too tightly. The very fine corona wires inside the EL Wire\'s vinyl coating are very fragile and will break easily. The wire will stop glowing or be dim at the first break (at best) or will short out and burn out your driver (at worst).

\r\n

Use a good technique when Terminating EL wire (e.g. using copper foil, heat shrink tubing and hot-melt glue.) Poor terminations fail and the diagnosis and repair often takes far longer than it would have taken to do it better to begin with.

\r\n

Every segment of EL Wire should have its own connector -- never daisy-chain segments. Soldering one wire to the end of the previous one may save you a few pennies on connectors, but it will cost you potentially hours of frustration trying to debug your project, and reusing segments will be inconvenient at best. If each segment has its own connector finding which segments are shorted is trivial! You don\'t have to start cutting wires to isolate shorts.

\r\n

EL Wire Projects are fragile -- handle with care. If you\'re just winding EL Wire around your bike, do that after you arrive on the playa, and remove it before you go home. Store fun-lights in plastic bags after wrapping the wire around your hand. Store clothing in flip-top boxes. Store larger projects in boxes that protect the wire.

\r\n

If you discover a short in a piece of wire, clip off about 1/8\" from the end with a sharp scissors. It is not uncommon for the end to be the location of the short circuit, and in any case it is easy to do and won\'t harm the wire. If the short isn\'t there, it is probably at the termination itself... which probably wouldn\'t have happened at all if a good termination technique was used.

\r\n','EL Wire Tips and Tricks','','inherit','open','open','','21-revision-7','','','2012-03-25 11:59:32','2012-03-25 11:59:32','',21,'http://nosefish.org/?p=91',0,'revision','',0),(92,11,'2011-09-18 03:47:17','2011-09-18 03:47:17','The nosefish shower was designed by Howard Cohen in 2006 and has been built and used by countless burners since then. It is simply a shower on a short platform built at a slight angle and with a hole in the lowest part, so the shower water can be collected. Then it is easy to bring home or filter and treat and then sprinkle on the playa. All the details are at:\r\n

\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_46\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"540\" caption=\"The first Nosefish Shower circa 2006\"][/caption]','Nosefish Shower','','inherit','open','open','','44-revision-3','','','2011-09-18 03:47:17','2011-09-18 03:47:17','',44,'http://nosefish.org/?p=92',0,'revision','',0),(93,11,'2012-03-25 12:57:15','2012-03-25 12:57:15','Camp Nosefish has been present on the playa since 2003. The history of our camp from 2003-2010 can be found here.\r\n\r\nIn 2011, Nosefish expanded our EL Wire Repair services to include more hours and more opportunities for participants of Black Rock City to help other burners repair their EL Wire projects. We were honored to be named an LNT model camp by the Earth Guardians. We also served up warm, delicious quesadillas at night so the denizens of BRC had some food in their bellies before a night of adventures on the playa.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n ','History of Camp Nosefish','','inherit','open','open','','63-revision-3','','','2012-03-25 12:57:15','2012-03-25 12:57:15','',63,'http://nosefish.org/?p=93',0,'revision','',0),(94,11,'2012-03-25 12:47:20','2012-03-25 12:47:20','We had some special challenges this year because of our Quesadilla! and EL Wire Repair servies. Here\'s our plan for managing them:\r\n

\r\n

We will have a floor on combined Quesadilla! and EL Wire Repair Dome (aka the service dome) to catch any spills, bits of wire and other soldering debris.

\r\n

We\'ll have a wind screen around the service dome to keep wind from blowing freely through it. The windscreen will come all the way to the ground, so that any materials and supplies inside the dome cannot escape simply by blowing along the ground.

\r\n

We are planning for extra space in our vehicles for the return trip so we have room for whatever moop we collect as well as the inevitable debris people leave in our public spaces. We\'re planning from the beginning for the moop we\'ll have at the end.

\r\n

\r\nPersonal Containment Domes\r\n\r\nThis year we have two large, covered shared domes and one personal dome. The domes will be covered with tarps in a manner that makes it easy to secure in a hurry by any of our camp members when there is a windstorm. One of the shared domes acts as our combined kitchen and storage area. The other is our camp\'s private lounge area. These areas will be protected from wind so that debris does not blow away using wind cloth. All of our domes have tarps on the floor to protect the playa from spills and to keep debris from getting ground into the playa.\r\n\r\nPeople will keep their items either in the kitchen dome or in their tents or vehicles.\r\n\r\nThe bottom line is that everyone in our camp has a place to keep their stuff so it won\'t blow away, whether they are there to protect it or not. Someone is always at our camp, and anyone in our camp will be able to close all the domes or tents quickly.','Dome Sweet Dome','','inherit','open','open','','76-revision-3','','','2012-03-25 12:47:20','2012-03-25 12:47:20','',76,'http://nosefish.org/?p=94',0,'revision','',0),(95,11,'2012-03-25 12:49:05','2012-03-25 12:49:05','

\r\n

Minimize packaging before we go to Burning Man

\r\n

Not dump untreated graywater on the playa or in the porta-potties (gray water = shower water, dish water)

\r\n

Not spit toothpaste on the playa

\r\n

Use porta-potties exactly and only for body waste. Toothpaste is OK in the porta-pottie (if you can get past the idea of brushing your teeth in an outhouse)

\r\n

Not burn anything on the playa. Use a burn platform for burnable debris (paper, wood), or a Burning Man approved firepit.

\r\n

Not dig holes in the playa except as required to secure a structure (e.g. for rebar).

\r\n

Not bring any of the following:

\r\n

\r\n

pistachios or any other nuts in shells

\r\n

feather boas or other clothing with bits that can come off in the wind

\r\n

loose glitter or glitter glued to artwork unless it is sealed with a clearcoat (e.g. clear krylon spraypaint).

\r\n

confetti or anything like it! Bad! No!!

\r\n

clothing or artwork with bits that always fly off in the wind

\r\n

individually wrapped candies (generates lots of tiny trash)

\r\n

meaningless schwag -- our gift to the community is our theme camp and our projects. We won\'t be giving away tiny trinkets. We believe in a gift economy -- not a barter economy. We don\'t need extra things to trade. We are always well-stocked with tools and supplies, and we offer their use freely without any expectation for anything in return. Well, we\'d like our tools returned... ;-)

\r\n

\r\n

Collect all our everything (trash, equipment, etc.) and take it away from Burning Man

\r\n

Clean up our personal camp space, including all debris, rebar stakes in the ground, etc. We promise to ask for help if we can\'t get a piece of rebar out -- our camp has tools to get the job done.

\r\n

Keep our gear inside our domes, vehicles and tents and be ready to close them up in case of a storm.

\r\n

At the onset of any storm, secure the domes and tents as quickly as possible.

\r\n

Secure our own domes if we know we and everyone who lives in it with us will be away on an adventure.

\r\n\r\nOpportunities to even the score\r\n\r\nThe truth is that despite our best efforts some of our debris will blow away, or some gift we give someone will end up releasing or becoming debris. So we need to actively look for opportunities to even the score before we can achieve anything close to zero net impact.\r\n

\r\n

We Pick up MOOP (matter-out-of-place) wherever we see it

\r\n

We find a gentle way to raise the awareness of anyone else who litters. Maybe just smile and say \"Here, let me pick that up for you.\"

\r\n

We bring a trashbag sometimes when we go adventuring.

\r\n

\r\nCamp Responsibilities\r\n\r\nA group of us will remain until the final day of Burning Man. Those that do will comprise the final camp cleanup team. The cleanup team has the responsibility to complete the cleanup of our camp. At that point it should not be a huge amount of work because every one of us will have cleaned up our own area. We are each of us the cleanup team for our own camping spot.\r\n\r\nThe cleanup team will:\r\n

\r\n

Make a shoulder-to-shoulder sweep of the entire camp and our annex camp if we have one. We will pick up anything that isn\'t playa or a black rock.

\r\n

Rake and scrape the surface of our camp to help remove dust covered debris and even out any unnatural piles and fill small holes. We also sweep the entire camp with a magnetic bar attached to the back of the rake, to pick up nuts and bolts, etc.

\r\n

\r\nHandling Gray Water\r\n\r\nWe collect all our treatable gray water and treat it with a combination of filtration and chemicals, so it is safe and sane to pour on the roads. We collect the rest of our gray and waste water and bring it back to an RV park where we dump it in an appropriate sewer for proper water treatment. Untreatable gray water includes shower water that may contain glitter or body paint, kitchen water, etc. We bring 5-gallon buckets with lids to contain our gray water. WE ABSOLUTELY NEVER POUR OUR GRAY WATER IN THE PORTA-POTTIES!! We only treat shower water that is free of glitter and body paint. We collect gray water separately from each shower, so we can make a choice on a shower-by-shower basis as to whether the gray water is treatable or not. Click here for complete details on our water handling technique.\r\n\r\nHandling Garbage\r\n\r\nWe use heavy-duty garbage bags to contain the lighter duty \"kitchen\" bags we use in our domes and tents. We secure our large garbage bags inside our kitchen dome, or in the small storage dome, to prevent any chance of their blowing away. We also try to minimize how much trash we do produce, by minimizing packaging, using crushable packaging, buying in bulk, etc.\r\n\r\nAs operators of an interactive venue at Burning Man, we end up carting out far more garbage than that which we create ourselves. Especially in the last few days we end up with more than our fair share of debris we didn\'t create. We always leave extra room in our vehicles for the return trip so we can take away this extra debris, which we take to the dump.','Things We All Do','','inherit','open','open','','79-revision-2','','','2012-03-25 12:49:05','2012-03-25 12:49:05','',79,'http://nosefish.org/?p=95',0,'revision','',0),(96,11,'2012-03-25 13:02:45','2012-03-25 13:02:45','Want even more information about Nosefish? You can contact one of our camp co-ordinators here:\r\n\r\nhoco(at)timefold(dot)com','Camp Contact Information','','publish','open','open','','camp-contact-information','','','2013-04-23 03:28:01','2013-04-23 03:28:01','',4,'http://nosefish.org/?page_id=96',1030,'page','',0),(97,11,'2012-03-25 13:02:24','2012-03-25 13:02:24','','Camp Contact Information','','inherit','open','open','','96-revision','','','2012-03-25 13:02:24','2012-03-25 13:02:24','',96,'http://nosefish.org/?p=97',0,'revision','',0),(99,11,'2012-04-10 18:03:00','2012-04-10 18:03:00','Camp Nosefish is thrilled to be returning to Black Rock City in 2012! Once again we are offering EL wire repair during the day to help keep the participants of the city and their projects safe and visible after dark. Also, we\'ll be bringing back by popular demand nightly quesadilla service, to provide weary citizens with some salty cheesy goodness to nourish their bodies and souls.\n\nAlso Camp Nosefish will continue to bring quality art pr','Nosefish 2012 - Great things to come!','','inherit','open','open','','98-revision','','','2012-04-10 18:03:00','2012-04-10 18:03:00','',98,'http://nosefish.org/?p=99',0,'revision','',0),(100,11,'2012-04-10 18:04:00','2012-04-10 18:04:00','Camp Nosefish is thrilled to be returning to Black Rock City in 2012! Once again we are offering EL wire repair during the day to help keep the participants of the city and their projects safe and visible after dark. Also, we\'ll be bringing back by popular demand nightly quesadilla service, to provide weary citizens with some salty cheesy goodness to nourish their bodies and souls.\n\nAlso Camp Nosefish will continue to bring quality art projects to the playa with the return of the MEZ screen as well as new projects to delight all. Stay tuned to this space for more details!','Nosefish 2012 - Great things to come!','','inherit','open','open','','98-revision-2','','','2012-04-10 18:04:00','2012-04-10 18:04:00','',98,'http://nosefish.org/?p=100',0,'revision','',0),(101,11,'2012-04-10 18:08:52','2012-04-10 18:08:52','Want even more information about Nosefish? 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The Earth Guardians have helped us refine our practices and we\'ve embraced many of their suggestions.\r\n\r\nOur holistic approach is to not make a mess in the first place! We\'ll bring less and store it better. We\'ll make it easier for anyone else in our camp to secure our stuff rather than relying on luck to ensure that someone gets someone else\'s stuff secured during a storm. We\'re ready for a storm whenever it happens. That coupled with our normal vigilance will mean less time spent cleaning up for everyone and less chances of debris blowing away that someone else will have to clean up for us.\r\n\r\nResponsibility\r\n\r\nLaura Szymanski is our LNT expert and main liaison with the Earth Guardians. She is committed to overseeing all LNT practices in the camp and ensuring that all camp members comply with our cleanup plan from our initial arrival on the playa until we all leave. 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We\'ll make it easier for anyone else in our camp to secure our stuff rather than relying on luck to ensure that someone gets someone else\'s stuff secured during a storm. We\'re ready for a storm whenever it happens. That coupled with our normal vigilance will mean less time spent cleaning up for everyone and less chances of debris blowing away that someone else will have to clean up for us.\n\nResponsibility\n\nAndrea Butter is our LNT expert and main liaison with the Earth Guardians. She is committed to overseeing all LNT practices in the camp and ensuring that all camp members comply with our cleanup plan from our initial arrival on the playa until we all leave. Laura is also our Recycling Guru, who ensures we all recycle what can be recycled.\n\nLess is More\n\nOur philosophy is: less is more\n\nWe bring less stuff that doesn\'t matter and spend more time enjoying Burning Man. We\'ll certainly bring fun stuff like costumes, domes, camping equipment, art projects, etc., that allow us to interact with our fellow citizens of BRC. And we\'ll bring things to keep ourselves comfortable and well-fed regardless of the conditions. Of course we\'ll have tools and a few extra materials -- we have to anticipate the unexpected to reasonably balance the will of the desert. But we\'re making a conscious effort to bring less and do more with it.\n\n \n\n \n\n ','Our LNT commitment','','inherit','open','open','','72-autosave','','','2012-04-10 18:11:44','2012-04-10 18:11:44','',72,'http://nosefish.org/?p=104',0,'revision','',0),(105,11,'2012-04-10 18:10:41','2012-04-10 18:10:41','Our Leave-no-trace plan is our mutual commitment to a Burning Man experience with zero-impact on the playa. We all see taking care of the playa as our personal responsibility. We will all help each other remember and fulfil this commitment.\r\n\r\nWe\'ve been an Earth Guardian \"Model Camp\" in 2004, 2005, and 2006 and we won \"Camp of the Day\" in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2010, and 2011. The Earth Guardians have helped us refine our practices and we\'ve embraced many of their suggestions.\r\n\r\nOur holistic approach is to not make a mess in the first place! We\'ll bring less and store it better. We\'ll make it easier for anyone else in our camp to secure our stuff rather than relying on luck to ensure that someone gets someone else\'s stuff secured during a storm. We\'re ready for a storm whenever it happens. That coupled with our normal vigilance will mean less time spent cleaning up for everyone and less chances of debris blowing away that someone else will have to clean up for us.\r\n\r\nResponsibility\r\n\r\nAndrea Butter is our LNT expert and main liaison with the Earth Guardians. She is committed to overseeing all LNT practices in the camp and ensuring that all camp members comply with our cleanup plan from our initial arrival on the playa until we all leave. Laura is also our Recycling Guru, who ensures we all recycle what can be recycled.\r\n\r\nLess is More\r\n\r\nOur philosophy is: less is more\r\n\r\nWe bring less stuff that doesn\'t matter and spend more time enjoying Burning Man. We\'ll certainly bring fun stuff like costumes, domes, camping equipment, art projects, etc., that allow us to interact with our fellow citizens of BRC. And we\'ll bring things to keep ourselves comfortable and well-fed regardless of the conditions. Of course we\'ll have tools and a few extra materials -- we have to anticipate the unexpected to reasonably balance the will of the desert. But we\'re making a conscious effort to bring less and do more with it.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n ','Our LNT commitment','','inherit','open','open','','72-revision-5','','','2012-04-10 18:10:41','2012-04-10 18:10:41','',72,'http://nosefish.org/?p=105',0,'revision','',0),(106,11,'2012-03-25 12:56:59','2012-03-25 12:56:59','Welcome to the Nosefish.org home page.\r\n\r\nCamp Nose Fish has been since 2003. We\'ve won \"Camp of the Day\" three times because of our commitment to green practices and providing fun, interactive experiences or services to the Burning Man community.\r\n\r\nBeginning in 2010 Nose Fish began providing EL Wire repair on the playa. The 2010 service was just two hours per day and was operated only by Howard Cohen. In 2011 camp members and volunteers swelled the ranks of technicians and service was provided for five days, five hours each day (11a-4p). We learned a lot about what can go wrong with EL Wire on the playa -- read our Tips and Tricks Page!\r\n\r\nBoth years we were equipped with EL Wire, drivers, connectors and many miscellaneous tools and materials by Benny at coolneon.com without whom there would be no EL Wire service on the playa, or probably much EL Wire at all on the playa, to be honest.\r\n\r\nIn 2011 Nose Fish will be back at Burning Man with a better organized, better equipped EL Wire repair service. And, probably quesadillas too.\r\n\r\n','Welcome to Nosefish.org','','inherit','open','open','','4-revision-10','','','2012-03-25 12:56:59','2012-03-25 12:56:59','',4,'http://nosefish.org/?p=106',0,'revision','',0),(107,11,'2012-04-10 18:17:39','2012-04-10 18:17:39','Welcome to the Nosefish.org home page.\r\n\r\nCamp Nose Fish has been since 2003. We\'ve won \"Camp of the Day\" four times because of our commitment to green practices and providing fun, interactive experiences or services to the Burning Man community.\r\n\r\nBeginning in 2010 Nose Fish began providing EL Wire repair on the playa. The 2010 service was just two hours per day and was operated only by Howard Cohen. In 2011 camp members and volunteers swelled the ranks of technicians and service was provided for five days, five hours each day (11a-4p). We learned a lot about what can go wrong with EL Wire on the playa -- read our Tips and Tricks Page!\r\n\r\nBoth years we were equipped with EL Wire, drivers, connectors and many miscellaneous tools and materials by Benny at coolneon.com without whom there would be no EL Wire service on the playa, or probably much EL Wire at all on the playa, to be honest.\r\n\r\nIn 2011 Nose Fish will be back at Burning Man with a better organized, better equipped EL Wire repair service. And, probably quesadillas too.\r\n\r\n','Welcome to Nosefish.org','','inherit','open','open','','4-revision-11','','','2012-04-10 18:17:39','2012-04-10 18:17:39','',4,'http://nosefish.org/?p=107',0,'revision','',0),(108,11,'2012-04-10 18:19:57','2012-04-10 18:19:57','Camp Nose Fish is thrilled to be returning to Black Rock City in 2012! Once again we are offering EL wire repair during the day to help keep the participants of the city and their projects safe and visible after dark. Also, we\'ll be bringing back by popular demand nightly quesadilla service, to provide weary citizens with some salty cheesy goodness to nourish their bodies and souls.\n\nAlso Camp Nose Fish will continue to bring quality art projects to the playa with the return of the MEZ screen as well as new projects to delight all. Stay tuned to this space for more details!','Nosefish 2012 - Great things to come!','','inherit','open','open','','98-autosave','','','2012-04-10 18:19:57','2012-04-10 18:19:57','',98,'http://nosefish.org/?p=108',0,'revision','',0),(109,11,'2012-04-10 18:04:11','2012-04-10 18:04:11','Camp Nosefish is thrilled to be returning to Black Rock City in 2012! Once again we are offering EL wire repair during the day to help keep the participants of the city and their projects safe and visible after dark. Also, we\'ll be bringing back by popular demand nightly quesadilla service, to provide weary citizens with some salty cheesy goodness to nourish their bodies and souls.\r\n\r\nAlso Camp Nosefish will continue to bring quality art projects to the playa with the return of the MEZ screen as well as new projects to delight all. Stay tuned to this space for more details!','Nosefish 2012 - Great things to come!','','inherit','open','open','','98-revision-3','','','2012-04-10 18:04:11','2012-04-10 18:04:11','',98,'http://nosefish.org/?p=109',0,'revision','',0),(110,11,'2012-05-13 19:17:42','2012-05-13 19:17:42','Over the years Camp Nosefish has been the home of some innovative projects including:\n

\nWe do stuff and we learn from the process. Sometimes we document what we learn or what we create.\n\nBefore there was a Camp Nosefish I went to Burning Man three times. Each time involved projects and learning. Here\'s some more content from that era:\n

','Nosefish Projects','','inherit','open','open','','48-autosave','','','2012-05-13 19:17:42','2012-05-13 19:17:42','',48,'http://nosefish.org/?p=110',0,'revision','',0),(111,11,'2012-03-25 12:59:06','2012-03-25 12:59:06','Over the years Camp Nosefish has been the home of some innovative projects including:\r\n

\r\nWe do stuff and we learn from the process. Sometimes we document what we learn or what we create.\r\n\r\nBefore there was a Camp Nosefish I went to Burning Man three times. Each time involved projects and learning. Here\'s some more content from that era:\r\n

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Milk and sugar will be available, please bring your own cup!\r\n\r\nIn the afternoons, our world-renowned EL Wire Repair Service will return to keep you and your projects safe and well-lit at night. There are going to be more people than ever in Black Rock City this year, so it is important to be seen when the sun goes down. Check the What, Where, When guide for opening times.\r\n\r\nThen, after dark the interactive MEZ screen will return, where you and your friends can enjoy seeing images of your fine selves moving about transformed into different visual and time lapse patterns. From dusk until late :-)\r\n\r\nWe can\'t wait to see you on the playa!','Nosefish 2012 perks you up!','','publish','open','open','','nosefish-2012-perks-you-up','','','2012-08-12 19:58:51','2012-08-12 19:58:51','',0,'http://nosefish.org/?p=123',0,'post','',0),(124,11,'2012-08-12 19:57:46','2012-08-12 19:57:46','We are happy to announce the final plans for Camp Nose Fish for 2012!\n\nYou will be able to find us this year at Center Camp @ 2:00.\n\nThis year we are offering coffee service from 8am to 10am, so bring your groggy selves by to get yer caffeine fix and start the day off with a smile! Milk and sugar will be available, please bring your own cup!\n\nIn the afternoons, our world-renowned EL Wire Repair Service will return to keep you and your projects safe and well-lit at night. There are going to be more people than ever in Black Rock City this year, so it is important to be seen when the sun goes down. Check the What, Where, When guide for opening times.\n\nThen, after dark the interactive MEZ screen will return, where you and your friends can enjoy seeing images of your fine selves moving about transformed into different visual and time lapse patterns. From dusk until late :-)\n\nWe can\'t wait to','Nosefish 2012 perks you up!','','inherit','open','open','','123-revision','','','2012-08-12 19:57:46','2012-08-12 19:57:46','',123,'http://nosefish.org/?p=124',0,'revision','',0),(125,11,'2012-08-12 19:58:46','2012-08-12 19:58:46','We are happy to announce the final plans for Camp Nose Fish for 2012!\n\nYou will be able to find us this year at Center Camp @ 2:00.\n\nThis year we are offering coffee service from 8am to 10am, so bring your groggy selves by to get yer caffeine fix and start the day off with a smile! Milk and sugar will be available, please bring your own cup!\n\nIn the afternoons, our world-renowned EL Wire Repair Service will return to keep you and your projects safe and well-lit at night. There are going to be more people than ever in Black Rock City this year, so it is important to be seen when the sun goes down. Check the What, Where, When guide for opening times.\n\nThen, after dark the interactive MEZ screen will return, where you and your friends can enjoy seeing images of your fine selves moving about transformed into different visual and time lapse patterns. From dusk until late :-)\n\nWe can\'t wait to see you on the playa!','Nosefish 2012 perks you up!','','inherit','open','open','','123-revision-2','','','2012-08-12 19:58:46','2012-08-12 19:58:46','',123,'http://nosefish.org/?p=125',0,'revision','',0),(127,1,'2012-09-17 00:53:11','2012-09-17 00:53:11','This is our social contract -- we agree to take responsibility individually and as a group to to our best to follow the social contract.\r\n\r\n

Above all, communication among camp members should be civil and constructive and people should endeavor to work together peacefully and respectfully.

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Camp members exist in groups (pods) of typically 2 or 3 people who collectively function as a unit and who collectively share responsibility and credit for their pod\'s contribution. Pods are a reflection of what already is, not a requirement. People can be in a pod of one, or any other combination they mutually choose.

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Each day each camp member will be in the camp during the event they accrue 2 hours of obligation toward the camp, some of which could possibly be spent on sanctioned camp activities before or after the event.

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If a camp member receives an early arrival pass, each day they are on the playa before the event opens they accrue 4 hours of obligation to the camp. We often don\'t need that many. Unused hours do not carry forward to the next day.

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Each person accrues 10 hours of obligated time for sanctioned pre-event and/or post-event camp activities. Each pod takes responsibility for its members finding a way to contribute to these activities by coordinating with the camp leader. You may convert off-playa hours into on-playa hours, and vice versa, so long as it is for a sanctioned project and the camp leader agrees.

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Projects are scaled and planned so that they do not exceed the obligated hours people have accrued during their stay within NoseFish. Projects should fail if they are poorly planned.

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Time spent on LNT is exclusive of your obligated hours -- you are required to follow LNT practices at all times within our camp in addition to your obligated time. The only exception is time spent on LNT-enabling activities by the LNT guru.

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Camp members are asked to consider whether or how much of a financial contribution toward sanctioned projects they can afford to make. Contributions are optional. Projects are scaled to the available funds.

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Camp members are allowed to work more hours if that is what they love to do, but that does not create any kind of expectation that anyone else will work that hard. The accrued obligated hours are the sum total of all the time that is required to be a fully-appreciated camp member.

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Pods are indivisible units of obligation and credit for effort. Pods are responsible for the sum total of their member\'s obligated time and agreed upon responsibilities. It is inappropriate for people outside the pod to interfere with how the pod divides its work or its time.

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Only a pod can bring in a new person to the camp and in doing so they take responsibility for teaching them the social contract and for their compliance.

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Camp members agree to speak up promptly when there is a problem that affects the camp or its sanctioned projects. In particular, if you recognize that a project is in jeopardy, you are obliged to bring it to the attention of its project leader or the camp leader as soon as you become aware of the problem. For example, if you anticipate that there won\'t be enough person-hours available to operate a project, or it is missing a critical component, etc.

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Camp members agree not to spend any more time on sanctioned projects or pre/post activities than their cumulative obligation unless working only that amount of time would diminish their experience. In other words, if you don\'t love to work, then don\'t exceed your obligated hours. Notify someone from the project leader\'s pod or the camp leader and then let the project fail after ensuring that such failure would not create an immediate safety or LNT hazard.

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Projects shall not be rescued by requiring anyone to work beyond their obligated hours. It is better that a project should fail than be rescued at the cost of anyone\'s enjoyment.

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Project plans must be presented to the camp leader no later than 30 days before the close of the Theme Camp application window to be considered for whether it might be a sanctioned project or not. Space, time, cost and risk estimates as well as a drawing are required pre-requisites for a meeting with the camp leader (at least) to consider whether the camp can afford the resources to sanction the project. However, there is no requirement that the camp leader be the first person to know about the project -- socialize the idea among the camp to see if there is interest before bothering to determine if there are resources. Unsanctioned projects must either be outside the camp or be quiet, small and safe to be allowed inside the camp.

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Each member is responsible for finding a way to fulfill their commitment to the social contract -- nobody is doing the accounting to make sure each person does their share.

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Pods are responsible for their own food, water and other supplies, as well as for their own bikes and camping gear and other supplies. They are to be contained so they do not become moop and organized so they are not a tripping hazard. Pods are responsible for minimizing risks associated with their equipment.

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The camp members shall collectively decide which day shall the camp infrastructure shall be broken down. All camp members present on that day agree to participate in breakdown to the greatest extent practical for them.

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Sanctioned projects may have a project leader and team members from separate pods. In such cases the uninvolved members of the pod\'s main responsibility toward their own pod is to relay information but not necessarily to take direct action or assist. This is a subtlety and not an exception to the indivisible pod. Pod members ensure that the right member of their pod gets the message to fulfill their portion of their pod\'s obligation. The project member fulfills the rest of their pod\'s obligation toward the sanctioned project. In this way project teams can be distributed across pods without obligating all members of a pod to participate (more than a little) in a given project. This respects the fact that people have different interests even if they are in the same pod.

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Above all, communication among camp members should be civil and constructive and people should endeavor to work together peacefully and respectfully.

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Camp members exist in groups (pods) of typically 2 or 3 people who collectively function as a unit and who collectively share responsibility and credit for their pod\'s contribution. Pods are a reflection of what already is, not a requirement. People can be in a pod of one, or any other combination they mutually choose.

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Each day each camp member will be in the camp during the event they accrue 2 hours of obligation toward the camp, some of which could possibly be spent on sanctioned camp activities before or after the event.

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If a pod receives early arrival passes for its members, each day they are on the playa before the event opens they accrue up to 4 hours of obligation to the camp which must be spent on those days, but often the camp doesn\'t need that much time on a given day. Unused EA time does not accumulate and each day starts a fresh set of hours.

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Each person accrues 10 hours of obligated time for sanctioned pre-event and/or post-event camp activities. Each pod takes responsibility for its members finding a way to contribute to these activities by coordinating with the camp leader. You may convert off-playa hours into on-playa hours, and vice versa, so long as it is for a sanctioned project and the camp leader agrees.

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Projects are scaled and planned so that they do not exceed the obligated hours people have accrued during their stay within NoseFish. Projects should fail if they are poorly planned.

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Time spent on LNT is exclusive of your obligated hours -- you are required to follow LNT practices at all times within our camp in addition to your obligated time. The only exception is time spent on LNT-enabling activities by the LNT guru.

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Camp members are asked to consider whether or how much of a financial contribution toward sanctioned projects they can afford to make. Contributions are optional. Projects are scaled to the available funds.

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Camp members are allowed to work more hours if that is what they love to do, but that does not create any kind of expectation that anyone else will work that hard. The accrued obligated hours are the sum total of all the time that is required to be a fully-appreciated camp member.

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Pods are responsible for the sum total of their member\'s obligated time and agreed upon responsibilities. It is inappropriate for people outside the pod to interfere with how the pod divides its work or its time. Pods are indivisible units of obligation and credit for effort. Only a pod can bring in a new person to the camp and in doing so they take responsibility for teaching them the social contract and for their compliance.

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Camp members agree to speak up promptly when there is a problem that affects the camp or its sanctioned projects. In particular, if you recognize that a project is in jeopardy, you are obliged to bring it to the attention of its project leader or the camp leader as soon as you become aware of the problem. For example, if you anticipate that there won\'t be enough person-hours available to operate a project, or it is missing a critical component, etc.

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Camp members agree not to spend any more time on sanctioned projects or pre/post activities than their cumulative obligation unless working only that amount of time would diminish their experience. In other words, if you don\'t love to work, then don\'t exceed your obligated hours. Notify someone from the project leader\'s pod or the camp leader and then let the project fail after ensuring that such failure would not create an immediate safety or LNT hazard.

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Projects shall not be rescued by requiring anyone to work beyond their obligated hours. It is better that a project should fail than be rescued at the cost of anyone\'s enjoyment.

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Project plans must be presented to the camp leader no later than 30 days before the close of the Theme Camp application window to be considered for whether it might be a sanctioned project or not. Space, time, cost and risk estimates as well as a drawing are required pre-requisites for a meeting with the camp leader (at least) to consider whether the camp can afford the resources to sanction the project. However, there is no requirement that the camp leader be the first person to know about the project -- socialize the idea among the camp to see if there is interest before bothering to determine if there are resources. Unsanctioned projects must either be outside the camp or be quiet, small and safe to be allowed inside the camp.

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Each member is responsible for finding a way to fulfill their commitment to the social contract -- nobody is doing the accounting to make sure each person does their share.

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Pods are responsible for their own food, water and other supplies, as well as for their own bikes and camping gear and other supplies. They are to be contained so they do not become moop and organized so they are not a tripping hazard. Pods are responsible for minimizing risks associated with their equipment.

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All camp members present on the day that the camp has agreed shall be the breakdown day shall participate in breakdown to the greatest extent practical for them. Hours spent breaking down come from the pre/post pool and specifically not from the during-event pool of obligated hours. If you come late and leave early you\'ll need to spend a lot of time during burning man on camp activities. If you won\'t or can\'t, you should not camp with nose fish that year unless you are part of a pod that is willing to do your work for you.

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Sanctioned projects may have a project leader and team from separate pods. In such cases the uninvolved members of the pod\'s main responsibility toward their own pod is to relay information but not necessarily to take direct action or assist. This is a subtlety and not an exception to the indivisible pod. Pod members ensure that the right member of their pod gets the message to fulfill their portion of their pod\'s obligation. The project member fulfills the rest of their pod\'s obligation toward the sanctioned project. In this way project teams can be distributed across pods without obligating all members of a pod to participate in a given project. This respects the fact that people have different interests even if they are in the same pod.

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Pods are a reflection of what already is, not a requirement. People can be in a pod of one, or any other combination they mutually choose.\r\n\r\n2) Each day each camp member will be in the camp during the event they accrue 2 hours of obligation toward the camp, some of which could possibly be spent on sanctioned camp activities before or after the event.\r\n\r\n3) If a pod receives early arrival passes for its members, each day they are on the playa before the event opens they accrue up to 4 hours of obligation to the camp which must be spent on those days, but often the camp doesn\'t need that much time on a given day. Unused EA time does not accumulate and each day starts a fresh set of hours.\r\n\r\n4) Each person accrues 10 hours of obligated time for sanctioned pre-event and/or post-event camp activities. Each pod takes responsibility for its members finding a way to contribute to these activities by coordinating with the camp leader. You may convert off-playa hours into on-playa hours, and vice versa, so long as it is for a sanctioned project and the camp leader agrees.\r\n\r\n5) Projects are scaled and planned so that they do not exceed the obligated hours people have accrued during their stay within NoseFish. Projects should fail if they are poorly planned.\r\n\r\n6) Time spent on LNT is exclusive of your obligated hours -- you are required to follow LNT practices at all times within our camp in addition to your obligated time. The only exception is time spent on LNT-enabling activities by the LNT guru.\r\n\r\n7) Camp members are asked to consider whether or how much of a financial contribution toward sanctioned projects they can afford to make. Contributions are optional. Projects are scaled to the available funds.\r\n\r\n8) Camp members are allowed to work more hours if that is what they love to do, but that does not create any kind of expectation that anyone else will work that hard. The accrued obligated hours are the sum total of all the time that is required to be a fully-appreciated camp member.\r\n\r\n9) Pods are responsible for the sum total of their member\'s obligated time and agreed upon responsibilities. It is inappropriate for people outside the pod to interfere with how the pod divides its work or its time. Pods are indivisible units of obligation and credit for effort. Only a pod can bring in a new person to the camp and in doing so they take responsibility for teaching them the social contract and for their compliance.\r\n\r\n10) Camp members agree to speak up promptly when there is a problem that affects the camp or its sanctioned projects. In particular, if you recognize that a project is in jeopardy, you are obliged to bring it to the attention of its project leader or the camp leader as soon as you become aware of the problem. 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Unsanctioned projects must either be outside the camp or be quiet, small and safe to be allowed inside the camp.\r\n\r\n14) Each member is responsible for finding a way to fulfill their commitment to the social contract -- nobody is doing the accounting to make sure each person does their share.\r\n\r\n15) Pods are responsible for their own food, water and other supplies, as well as for their own bikes and camping gear and other supplies. They are to be contained so they do not become moop and organized so they are not a tripping hazard. Pods are responsible for minimizing risks associated with their equipment.\r\n\r\n16) All camp members present on the day that the camp has agreed shall be the breakdown day shall participate in breakdown to the greatest extent practical for them. Hours spent breaking down come from the pre/post pool and specifically not from the during-event pool of obligated hours. 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The accrued obligated hours are the sum total of all the time that is required to be a fully-appreciated camp member.\r\n\r\n9) Pods are responsible for the sum total of their member\'s obligated time and agreed upon responsibilities. It is inappropriate for people outside the pod to interfere with how the pod divides its work or its time. Pods are indivisible units of obligation and credit for effort. Only a pod can bring in a new person to the camp and in doing so they take responsibility for teaching them the social contract and for their compliance.\r\n\r\n10) Camp members agree to speak up promptly when there is a problem that affects the camp or its sanctioned projects. In particular, if you recognize that a project is in jeopardy, you are obliged to bring it to the attention of its project leader or the camp leader as soon as you become aware of the problem. 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For example, if you anticipate that there won\'t be enough person-hours available to operate a project, or it is missing a critical component, etc.\r\n\r\n11) Camp members agree not to spend any more time on sanctioned projects or pre/post activities than their cumulative obligation unless working only that amount of time would diminish their experience. In other words, if you don\'t love to work, then don\'t exceed your obligated hours. Notify someone from the project leader\'s pod or the camp leader and then let the project fail after ensuring that such failure would not create an immediate safety or LNT hazard.\r\n\r\n12) Projects shall not be rescued by requiring anyone to work beyond their obligated hours. 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Unsanctioned projects must either be outside the camp or be quiet, small and safe to be allowed inside the camp.\r\n\r\n14) Each member is responsible for finding a way to fulfill their commitment to the social contract -- nobody is doing the accounting to make sure each person does their share.\r\n\r\n15) Pods are responsible for their own food, water and other supplies, as well as for their own bikes and camping gear and other supplies. They are to be contained so they do not become moop and organized so they are not a tripping hazard. Pods are responsible for minimizing risks associated with their equipment.\r\n\r\n16) All camp members present on the day that the camp has agreed shall be the breakdown day shall participate in breakdown to the greatest extent practical for them. Hours spent breaking down come from the pre/post pool and specifically not from the during-event pool of obligated hours. 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It is better that a project should fail than be rescued at the cost of anyone\'s enjoyment.\r\n\r\n13) Project plans must be presented to the camp leader no later than 30 days before the close of the Theme Camp application window to be considered for whether it might be a sanctioned project or not. Space, time, cost and risk estimates as well as a drawing are required pre-requisites for a meeting with the camp leader (at least) to consider whether the camp can afford the resources to sanction the project. However, there is no requirement that the camp leader be the first person to know about the project -- socialize the idea among the camp to see if there is interest before bothering to determine if there are resources. Unsanctioned projects must either be outside the camp or be quiet, small and safe to be allowed inside the camp.\r\n\r\n14) Each member is responsible for finding a way to fulfill their commitment to the social contract -- nobody is doing the accounting to make sure each person does their share.\r\n\r\n15) Pods are responsible for their own food, water and other supplies, as well as for their own bikes and camping gear and other supplies. They are to be contained so they do not become moop and organized so they are not a tripping hazard. Pods are responsible for minimizing risks associated with their equipment.\r\n\r\n16) All camp members present on the day that the camp has agreed shall be the breakdown day shall participate in breakdown to the greatest extent practical for them. Hours spent breaking down come from the pre/post pool and specifically not from the during-event pool of obligated hours. If you come late and leave early you\'ll need to spend a lot of time during burning man on camp activities. If you won\'t or can\'t, you should not camp with nose fish that year unless you are part of a pod that is willing to do your work for you.\r\n\r\n17) Sanctioned projects may have a project leader and team from separate pods. In such cases the uninvolved members of the pod\'s main responsibility toward their own pod is to relay information but not necessarily to take direct action or assist. This is a subtlety and not an exception to the indivisible pod. Pod members ensure that the right member of their pod gets the message to fulfill their portion of their pod\'s obligation. The project member fulfills the rest of their pod\'s obligation toward the sanctioned project. In this way project teams can be distributed across pods without obligating all members of a pod to participate in a given project. This respects the fact that people have different interests even if they are in the same pod.\r\n\r\n18) Above all, communication among camp members should be civil and constructive and people should endeavor to work together peacefully and respectfully.','Nosefish Social Contract','','inherit','open','open','','127-revision-6','','','2012-09-17 00:59:21','2012-09-17 00:59:21','',127,'http://nosefish.org/?p=134',0,'revision','',0),(135,1,'2012-09-17 01:50:14','2012-09-17 01:50:14','This is our social contract -- we agree to take responsibility individually and as a group to to our best to follow the social contract.\n\n

Above all, communication among camp members should be civil and constructive and people should endeavor to work together peacefully and respectfully.

\n

Camp members exist in groups (pods) of typically 2 or 3 people who collectively function as a unit and who collectively share responsibility and credit for their pod\'s contribution. Pods are a reflection of what already is, not a requirement. People can be in a pod of one, or any other combination they mutually choose.

\n

Each day each camp member will be in the camp during the event they accrue 2 hours of obligation toward the camp, some of which could possibly be spent on sanctioned camp activities before or after the event.

\n

If a camp member receives an early arrival pass, each day they are on the playa before the event opens they accrue 4 hours of obligation to the camp. We often don\'t need that many. Unused hours do not carry forward to the next day.

\n

Each person accrues 10 hours of obligated time for sanctioned pre-event and/or post-event camp activities. Each pod takes responsibility for its members finding a way to contribute to these activities by coordinating with the camp leader. You may convert off-playa hours into on-playa hours, and vice versa, so long as it is for a sanctioned project and the camp leader agrees.

\n

Projects are scaled and planned so that they do not exceed the obligated hours people have accrued during their stay within NoseFish. Projects should fail if they are poorly planned.

\n

Time spent on LNT is exclusive of your obligated hours -- you are required to follow LNT practices at all times within our camp in addition to your obligated time. The only exception is time spent on LNT-enabling activities by the LNT guru.

\n

Camp members are asked to consider whether or how much of a financial contribution toward sanctioned projects they can afford to make. Contributions are optional. Projects are scaled to the available funds.

\n

Camp members are allowed to work more hours if that is what they love to do, but that does not create any kind of expectation that anyone else will work that hard. The accrued obligated hours are the sum total of all the time that is required to be a fully-appreciated camp member.

\n

Pods are indivisible units of obligation and credit for effort. Pods are responsible for the sum total of their member\'s obligated time and agreed upon responsibilities. It is inappropriate for people outside the pod to interfere with how the pod divides its work or its time.

\n

Only a pod can bring in a new person to the camp and in doing so they take responsibility for teaching them the social contract and for their compliance.

\n

Camp members agree to speak up promptly when there is a problem that affects the camp or its sanctioned projects. In particular, if you recognize that a project is in jeopardy, you are obliged to bring it to the attention of its project leader or the camp leader as soon as you become aware of the problem. For example, if you anticipate that there won\'t be enough person-hours available to operate a project, or it is missing a critical component, etc.

\n

Camp members agree not to spend any more time on sanctioned projects or pre/post activities than their cumulative obligation unless working only that amount of time would diminish their experience. In other words, if you don\'t love to work, then don\'t exceed your obligated hours. Notify someone from the project leader\'s pod or the camp leader and then let the project fail after ensuring that such failure would not create an immediate safety or LNT hazard.

\n

Projects shall not be rescued by requiring anyone to work beyond their obligated hours. It is better that a project should fail than be rescued at the cost of anyone\'s enjoyment.

\n

Project plans must be presented to the camp leader no later than 30 days before the close of the Theme Camp application window to be considered for whether it might be a sanctioned project or not. Space, time, cost and risk estimates as well as a drawing are required pre-requisites for a meeting with the camp leader (at least) to consider whether the camp can afford the resources to sanction the project. However, there is no requirement that the camp leader be the first person to know about the project -- socialize the idea among the camp to see if there is interest before bothering to determine if there are resources. Unsanctioned projects must either be outside the camp or be quiet, small and safe to be allowed inside the camp.

\n

Each member is responsible for finding a way to fulfill their commitment to the social contract -- nobody is doing the accounting to make sure each person does their share.

\n

Pods are responsible for their own food, water and other supplies, as well as for their own bikes and camping gear and other supplies. They are to be contained so they do not become moop and organized so they are not a tripping hazard. Pods are responsible for minimizing risks associated with their equipment.

\n

The camp members shall collectively decide which day shall the camp infrastructure shall be broken down. All camp members present on that day agree to participate in breakdown to the greatest extent practical for them.

\n

Sanctioned projects may have a project leader and team members from separate pods. In such cases the uninvolved members of the pod\'s main responsibility toward their own pod is to relay information but not necessarily to take direct action or assist. This is a subtlety and not an exception to the indivisible pod. Pod members ensure that the right member of their pod gets the message to fulfill their portion of their pod\'s obligation. The project member fulfills the rest of their pod\'s obligation toward the sanctioned project. In this way project teams can be distributed across pods without obligating all members of a pod to participate (more than a little) in a given project. This respects the fact that people have different interests even if they are in the same pod.

\n\n ','Nosefish Social Contract','','inherit','open','open','','127-autosave','','','2012-09-17 01:50:14','2012-09-17 01:50:14','',127,'http://nosefish.org/?p=135',0,'revision','',0),(136,1,'2012-09-17 00:59:39','2012-09-17 00:59:39','This is our social contract -- we agree to take responsibility individually and as a group to to our best to follow the social contract.\r\n\r\n1) Camp members exist in groups (pods) of typically 2 or 3 people who collectively function as a unit and who collectively share responsibility and credit for their pod\'s contribution. Pods are a reflection of what already is, not a requirement. People can be in a pod of one, or any other combination they mutually choose.\r\n\r\n2) Each day each camp member will be in the camp during the event they accrue 2 hours of obligation toward the camp, some of which could possibly be spent on sanctioned camp activities before or after the event.\r\n\r\n3) If a pod receives early arrival passes for its members, each day they are on the playa before the event opens they accrue up to 4 hours of obligation to the camp which must be spent on those days, but often the camp doesn\'t need that much time on a given day. Unused EA time does not accumulate and each day starts a fresh set of hours.\r\n\r\n4) Each person accrues 10 hours of obligated time for sanctioned pre-event and/or post-event camp activities. Each pod takes responsibility for its members finding a way to contribute to these activities by coordinating with the camp leader. You may convert off-playa hours into on-playa hours, and vice versa, so long as it is for a sanctioned project and the camp leader agrees.\r\n\r\n5) Projects are scaled and planned so that they do not exceed the obligated hours people have accrued during their stay within NoseFish. Projects should fail if they are poorly planned.\r\n\r\n6) Time spent on LNT is exclusive of your obligated hours -- you are required to follow LNT practices at all times within our camp in addition to your obligated time. The only exception is time spent on LNT-enabling activities by the LNT guru.\r\n\r\n7) Camp members are asked to consider whether or how much of a financial contribution toward sanctioned projects they can afford to make. Contributions are optional. Projects are scaled to the available funds.\r\n\r\n8) Camp members are allowed to work more hours if that is what they love to do, but that does not create any kind of expectation that anyone else will work that hard. The accrued obligated hours are the sum total of all the time that is required to be a fully-appreciated camp member.\r\n\r\n9) Pods are responsible for the sum total of their member\'s obligated time and agreed upon responsibilities. It is inappropriate for people outside the pod to interfere with how the pod divides its work or its time. Pods are indivisible units of obligation and credit for effort. Only a pod can bring in a new person to the camp and in doing so they take responsibility for teaching them the social contract and for their compliance.\r\n\r\n10) Camp members agree to speak up promptly when there is a problem that affects the camp or its sanctioned projects. In particular, if you recognize that a project is in jeopardy, you are obliged to bring it to the attention of its project leader or the camp leader as soon as you become aware of the problem. For example, if you anticipate that there won\'t be enough person-hours available to operate a project, or it is missing a critical component, etc.\r\n\r\n11) Camp members agree not to spend any more time on sanctioned projects or pre/post activities than their cumulative obligation unless working only that amount of time would diminish their experience. In other words, if you don\'t love to work, then don\'t exceed your obligated hours. Notify someone from the project leader\'s pod or the camp leader and then let the project fail after ensuring that such failure would not create an immediate safety or LNT hazard.\r\n\r\n12) Projects shall not be rescued by requiring anyone to work beyond their obligated hours. It is better that a project should fail than be rescued at the cost of anyone\'s enjoyment.\r\n\r\n13) Project plans must be presented to the camp leader no later than 30 days before the close of the Theme Camp application window to be considered for whether it might be a sanctioned project or not. Space, time, cost and risk estimates as well as a drawing are required pre-requisites for a meeting with the camp leader (at least) to consider whether the camp can afford the resources to sanction the project. However, there is no requirement that the camp leader be the first person to know about the project -- socialize the idea among the camp to see if there is interest before bothering to determine if there are resources. Unsanctioned projects must either be outside the camp or be quiet, small and safe to be allowed inside the camp.\r\n\r\n14) Each member is responsible for finding a way to fulfill their commitment to the social contract -- nobody is doing the accounting to make sure each person does their share.\r\n\r\n15) Pods are responsible for their own food, water and other supplies, as well as for their own bikes and camping gear and other supplies. They are to be contained so they do not become moop and organized so they are not a tripping hazard. Pods are responsible for minimizing risks associated with their equipment.\r\n\r\n16) All camp members present on the day that the camp has agreed shall be the breakdown day shall participate in breakdown to the greatest extent practical for them. Hours spent breaking down come from the pre/post pool and specifically not from the during-event pool of obligated hours. If you come late and leave early you\'ll need to spend a lot of time during burning man on camp activities. If you won\'t or can\'t, you should not camp with nose fish that year unless you are part of a pod that is willing to do your work for you.\r\n\r\n17) Sanctioned projects may have a project leader and team from separate pods. In such cases the uninvolved members of the pod\'s main responsibility toward their own pod is to relay information but not necessarily to take direct action or assist. This is a subtlety and not an exception to the indivisible pod. Pod members ensure that the right member of their pod gets the message to fulfill their portion of their pod\'s obligation. The project member fulfills the rest of their pod\'s obligation toward the sanctioned project. In this way project teams can be distributed across pods without obligating all members of a pod to participate in a given project. This respects the fact that people have different interests even if they are in the same pod.\r\n\r\n18) Above all, communication among camp members should be civil and constructive and people should endeavor to work together peacefully and respectfully.','Nosefish Social Contract','','inherit','open','open','','127-revision-7','','','2012-09-17 00:59:39','2012-09-17 00:59:39','',127,'http://nosefish.org/?p=136',0,'revision','',0),(137,1,'2012-09-17 01:29:40','2012-09-17 01:29:40','This is our social contract -- we agree to take responsibility individually and as a group to to our best to follow the social contract.\r\n\r\nCamp members exist in groups (pods) of typically 2 or 3 people who collectively function as a unit and who collectively share responsibility and credit for their pod\'s contribution. Pods are a reflection of what already is, not a requirement. People can be in a pod of one, or any other combination they mutually choose.\r\n\r\nEach day each camp member will be in the camp during the event they accrue 2 hours of obligation toward the camp, some of which could possibly be spent on sanctioned camp activities before or after the event.\r\n\r\nIf a pod receives early arrival passes for its members, each day they are on the playa before the event opens they accrue up to 4 hours of obligation to the camp which must be spent on those days, but often the camp doesn\'t need that much time on a given day. Unused EA time does not accumulate and each day starts a fresh set of hours.\r\n\r\nEach person accrues 10 hours of obligated time for sanctioned pre-event and/or post-event camp activities. Each pod takes responsibility for its members finding a way to contribute to these activities by coordinating with the camp leader. You may convert off-playa hours into on-playa hours, and vice versa, so long as it is for a sanctioned project and the camp leader agrees.\r\n\r\nProjects are scaled and planned so that they do not exceed the obligated hours people have accrued during their stay within NoseFish. Projects should fail if they are poorly planned.\r\n\r\nTime spent on LNT is exclusive of your obligated hours -- you are required to follow LNT practices at all times within our camp in addition to your obligated time. The only exception is time spent on LNT-enabling activities by the LNT guru.\r\n\r\nCamp members are asked to consider whether or how much of a financial contribution toward sanctioned projects they can afford to make. Contributions are optional. Projects are scaled to the available funds.\r\n\r\nCamp members are allowed to work more hours if that is what they love to do, but that does not create any kind of expectation that anyone else will work that hard. The accrued obligated hours are the sum total of all the time that is required to be a fully-appreciated camp member.\r\n\r\nPods are responsible for the sum total of their member\'s obligated time and agreed upon responsibilities. It is inappropriate for people outside the pod to interfere with how the pod divides its work or its time. Pods are indivisible units of obligation and credit for effort. Only a pod can bring in a new person to the camp and in doing so they take responsibility for teaching them the social contract and for their compliance.\r\n\r\nCamp members agree to speak up promptly when there is a problem that affects the camp or its sanctioned projects. In particular, if you recognize that a project is in jeopardy, you are obliged to bring it to the attention of its project leader or the camp leader as soon as you become aware of the problem. For example, if you anticipate that there won\'t be enough person-hours available to operate a project, or it is missing a critical component, etc.\r\n\r\nCamp members agree not to spend any more time on sanctioned projects or pre/post activities than their cumulative obligation unless working only that amount of time would diminish their experience. In other words, if you don\'t love to work, then don\'t exceed your obligated hours. Notify someone from the project leader\'s pod or the camp leader and then let the project fail after ensuring that such failure would not create an immediate safety or LNT hazard.\r\n\r\nProjects shall not be rescued by requiring anyone to work beyond their obligated hours. It is better that a project should fail than be rescued at the cost of anyone\'s enjoyment.\r\n\r\nProject plans must be presented to the camp leader no later than 30 days before the close of the Theme Camp application window to be considered for whether it might be a sanctioned project or not. Space, time, cost and risk estimates as well as a drawing are required pre-requisites for a meeting with the camp leader (at least) to consider whether the camp can afford the resources to sanction the project. However, there is no requirement that the camp leader be the first person to know about the project -- socialize the idea among the camp to see if there is interest before bothering to determine if there are resources. Unsanctioned projects must either be outside the camp or be quiet, small and safe to be allowed inside the camp.\r\n\r\nEach member is responsible for finding a way to fulfill their commitment to the social contract -- nobody is doing the accounting to make sure each person does their share.\r\n\r\nPods are responsible for their own food, water and other supplies, as well as for their own bikes and camping gear and other supplies. They are to be contained so they do not become moop and organized so they are not a tripping hazard. Pods are responsible for minimizing risks associated with their equipment.\r\n\r\nAll camp members present on the day that the camp has agreed shall be the breakdown day shall participate in breakdown to the greatest extent practical for them. Hours spent breaking down come from the pre/post pool and specifically not from the during-event pool of obligated hours. If you come late and leave early you\'ll need to spend a lot of time during burning man on camp activities. If you won\'t or can\'t, you should not camp with nose fish that year unless you are part of a pod that is willing to do your work for you.\r\n\r\nSanctioned projects may have a project leader and team from separate pods. In such cases the uninvolved members of the pod\'s main responsibility toward their own pod is to relay information but not necessarily to take direct action or assist. This is a subtlety and not an exception to the indivisible pod. Pod members ensure that the right member of their pod gets the message to fulfill their portion of their pod\'s obligation. The project member fulfills the rest of their pod\'s obligation toward the sanctioned project. In this way project teams can be distributed across pods without obligating all members of a pod to participate in a given project. This respects the fact that people have different interests even if they are in the same pod.\r\n\r\nAbove all, communication among camp members should be civil and constructive and people should endeavor to work together peacefully and respectfully.','Nosefish Social Contract','','inherit','open','open','','127-revision-8','','','2012-09-17 01:29:40','2012-09-17 01:29:40','',127,'http://nosefish.org/?p=137',0,'revision','',0),(139,1,'2012-09-17 01:49:12','2012-09-17 01:49:12','This is our social contract -- we agree to take responsibility individually and as a group to to our best to follow the social contract.\r\n\r\n

Above all, communication among camp members should be civil and constructive and people should endeavor to work together peacefully and respectfully.

\r\n

Camp members exist in groups (pods) of typically 2 or 3 people who collectively function as a unit and who collectively share responsibility and credit for their pod\'s contribution. Pods are a reflection of what already is, not a requirement. People can be in a pod of one, or any other combination they mutually choose.

\r\n

Each day each camp member will be in the camp during the event they accrue 2 hours of obligation toward the camp, some of which could possibly be spent on sanctioned camp activities before or after the event.

\r\n

If a camp member receives an early arrival pass, each day they are on the playa before the event opens they accrue 4 hours of obligation to the camp. We often don\'t need that many. Unused hours do not carry forward to the next day.

\r\n

Each person accrues 10 hours of obligated time for sanctioned pre-event and/or post-event camp activities. Each pod takes responsibility for its members finding a way to contribute to these activities by coordinating with the camp leader. You may convert off-playa hours into on-playa hours, and vice versa, so long as it is for a sanctioned project and the camp leader agrees.

\r\n

Projects are scaled and planned so that they do not exceed the obligated hours people have accrued during their stay within NoseFish. Projects should fail if they are poorly planned.

\r\n

Time spent on LNT is exclusive of your obligated hours -- you are required to follow LNT practices at all times within our camp in addition to your obligated time. The only exception is time spent on LNT-enabling activities by the LNT guru.

\r\n

Camp members are asked to consider whether or how much of a financial contribution toward sanctioned projects they can afford to make. Contributions are optional. Projects are scaled to the available funds.

\r\n

Camp members are allowed to work more hours if that is what they love to do, but that does not create any kind of expectation that anyone else will work that hard. The accrued obligated hours are the sum total of all the time that is required to be a fully-appreciated camp member.

\r\n

Pods are indivisible units of obligation and credit for effort. Pods are responsible for the sum total of their member\'s obligated time and agreed upon responsibilities. It is inappropriate for people outside the pod to interfere with how the pod divides its work or its time.

\r\n

Only a pod can bring in a new person to the camp and in doing so they take responsibility for teaching them the social contract and for their compliance.

\r\n

Camp members agree to speak up promptly when there is a problem that affects the camp or its sanctioned projects. In particular, if you recognize that a project is in jeopardy, you are obliged to bring it to the attention of its project leader or the camp leader as soon as you become aware of the problem. For example, if you anticipate that there won\'t be enough person-hours available to operate a project, or it is missing a critical component, etc.

\r\n

Camp members agree not to spend any more time on sanctioned projects or pre/post activities than their cumulative obligation unless working only that amount of time would diminish their experience. In other words, if you don\'t love to work, then don\'t exceed your obligated hours. Notify someone from the project leader\'s pod or the camp leader and then let the project fail after ensuring that such failure would not create an immediate safety or LNT hazard.

\r\n

Projects shall not be rescued by requiring anyone to work beyond their obligated hours. It is better that a project should fail than be rescued at the cost of anyone\'s enjoyment.

\r\n

Project plans must be presented to the camp leader no later than 30 days before the close of the Theme Camp application window to be considered for whether it might be a sanctioned project or not. Space, time, cost and risk estimates as well as a drawing are required pre-requisites for a meeting with the camp leader (at least) to consider whether the camp can afford the resources to sanction the project. However, there is no requirement that the camp leader be the first person to know about the project -- socialize the idea among the camp to see if there is interest before bothering to determine if there are resources. Unsanctioned projects must either be outside the camp or be quiet, small and safe to be allowed inside the camp.

\r\n

Each member is responsible for finding a way to fulfill their commitment to the social contract -- nobody is doing the accounting to make sure each person does their share.

\r\n

Pods are responsible for their own food, water and other supplies, as well as for their own bikes and camping gear and other supplies. They are to be contained so they do not become moop and organized so they are not a tripping hazard. Pods are responsible for minimizing risks associated with their equipment.

\r\n

The camp members shall collectively decide which day shall the camp infrastructure shall be broken down. All camp members present on that day agree to participate in breakdown to the greatest extent practical for them.

\r\n

Sanctioned projects may have a project leader and team members from separate pods. In such cases the uninvolved members of the pod\'s main responsibility toward their own pod is to relay information but not necessarily to take direct action or assist. This is a subtlety and not an exception to the indivisible pod. Pod members ensure that the right member of their pod gets the message to fulfill their portion of their pod\'s obligation. The project member fulfills the rest of their pod\'s obligation toward the sanctioned project. In this way project teams can be distributed across pods without obligating all members of a pod to participate (more than a little) in a given project. This respects the fact that people have different interests even if they are in the same pod.

\r\n\r\n ','Nosefish Social Contract','','inherit','open','open','','127-revision-10','','','2012-09-17 01:49:12','2012-09-17 01:49:12','',127,'http://nosefish.org/?p=139',0,'revision','',0),(141,11,'2013-04-23 02:06:18','2013-04-23 02:06:18','In 2013, Nosefish is proud to offer 3 great projects on the playa!\r\n\r\nWe\'re located in Center Camp at the 2:45 position (as if center camp were a clock seen from the top and if noon were facing the Man).\r\n\r\nBy day, we will be offering EL Wire Repair service, back by popular demand! Everyone loves being safe and beautiful by night in Black Rock City, but sometimes the harsh environment and activities of the playa can take their toll on EL Wire. Nosefish is here to help the participants of Black Rock City to troubleshoot and repair EL Wire on bikes, art, and clothes. The service will be provided Monday-Friday from 11am-4pm. We bring lots of spare parts and wire to replace whatever has broken. We also invite EL-Wire geeks to participate and provide service with us for the community. We invite people to donate their unused EL-Wire supplies so we can re-gift and reuse them for others. This will be the fourth year for our EL-Wire service. Would you like to contribute to our EL Wire Service? Find out how\r\n\r\nBy night, the MEZ screen will delight the citizens of Black Rock City by providing an interactive visual adventure from first dark through the early morning. It uses a digital video camera to receive a moving image of the scene in front of a large rear-projection video screen. The camera feeds into a computer that morphs the scene in real time and then sends it to a digital projector. Participants can watch their own movements be transformed into multicolored dynamic images that encourage more people to join in and watch the fun they create!\r\n\r\nAlso, this year Nose Fish is supporting the Beat Frequency Muffin project headed up by Aleks Zosuls. It will be a kinetic art project (with playa placement) that offers 24x7 interactivity. It is a fanciful \"antenna\" created as if imagined by the natives who are trying to reach John Frum. The antenna has a collection of devices that produce sounds. People can interact with it to make unique sounds. The antenna itself will have moving parts that can be controlled by participants. Our camp will be providing the infrastructure for Aleks and his team as they build and operate their project. Nose Fish elected to embrace Aleks\' project to support a new artist as they undertake their first large-scale art at Burning Man.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n ','What We Do - 2013','','publish','open','closed','','what-we-do-2013','','','2013-08-17 23:11:16','2013-08-17 23:11:16','',0,'http://nosefish.org/?page_id=141',2000,'page','',0),(142,11,'2012-09-17 13:50:18','2012-09-17 13:50:18','This is our social contract -- we agree to take responsibility individually and as a group to to our best to follow the social contract.\r\n\r\n

Above all, communication among camp members should be civil and constructive and people should endeavor to work together peacefully and respectfully.

\r\n

Camp members exist in groups (pods) of typically 2 or 3 people who collectively function as a unit and who collectively share responsibility and credit for their pod\'s contribution. Pods are a reflection of what already is, not a requirement. People can be in a pod of one, or any other combination they mutually choose.

\r\n

Each day each camp member will be in the camp during the event they accrue 2 hours of obligation toward the camp, some of which could possibly be spent on sanctioned camp activities before or after the event.

\r\n

If a camp member receives an early arrival pass, each day they are on the playa before the event opens they accrue 4 hours of obligation to the camp. We often don\'t need that many. Unused hours do not carry forward to the next day.

\r\n

Each person accrues 10 hours of obligated time for sanctioned pre-event and/or post-event camp activities. Each pod takes responsibility for its members finding a way to contribute to these activities by coordinating with the camp leader. You may convert off-playa hours into on-playa hours, and vice versa, so long as it is for a sanctioned project and the camp leader agrees.

\r\n

Projects are scaled and planned so that they do not exceed the obligated hours people have accrued during their stay within NoseFish. Projects should fail if they are poorly planned.

\r\n

Time spent on LNT is exclusive of your obligated hours -- you are required to follow LNT practices at all times within our camp in addition to your obligated time. The only exception is time spent on LNT-enabling activities by the LNT guru.

\r\n

Camp members are asked to consider whether or how much of a financial contribution toward sanctioned projects they can afford to make. Contributions are optional. Projects are scaled to the available funds.

\r\n

Camp members are allowed to work more hours if that is what they love to do, but that does not create any kind of expectation that anyone else will work that hard. The accrued obligated hours are the sum total of all the time that is required to be a fully-appreciated camp member.

\r\n

Pods are indivisible units of obligation and credit for effort. Pods are responsible for the sum total of their member\'s obligated time and agreed upon responsibilities. It is inappropriate for people outside the pod to interfere with how the pod divides its work or its time.

\r\n

Only a pod can bring in a new person to the camp and in doing so they take responsibility for teaching them the social contract and for their compliance.

\r\n

Camp members agree to speak up promptly when there is a problem that affects the camp or its sanctioned projects. In particular, if you recognize that a project is in jeopardy, you are obliged to bring it to the attention of its project leader or the camp leader as soon as you become aware of the problem. For example, if you anticipate that there won\'t be enough person-hours available to operate a project, or it is missing a critical component, etc.

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Camp members agree not to spend any more time on sanctioned projects or pre/post activities than their cumulative obligation unless working only that amount of time would diminish their experience. In other words, if you don\'t love to work, then don\'t exceed your obligated hours. Notify someone from the project leader\'s pod or the camp leader and then let the project fail after ensuring that such failure would not create an immediate safety or LNT hazard.

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Projects shall not be rescued by requiring anyone to work beyond their obligated hours. It is better that a project should fail than be rescued at the cost of anyone\'s enjoyment.

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Project plans must be presented to the camp leader no later than 30 days before the close of the Theme Camp application window to be considered for whether it might be a sanctioned project or not. Space, time, cost and risk estimates as well as a drawing are required pre-requisites for a meeting with the camp leader (at least) to consider whether the camp can afford the resources to sanction the project. However, there is no requirement that the camp leader be the first person to know about the project -- socialize the idea among the camp to see if there is interest before bothering to determine if there are resources. Unsanctioned projects must either be outside the camp or be quiet, small and safe to be allowed inside the camp.

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Each member is responsible for finding a way to fulfill their commitment to the social contract -- nobody is doing the accounting to make sure each person does their share.

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Pods are responsible for their own food, water and other supplies, as well as for their own bikes and camping gear and other supplies. They are to be contained so they do not become moop and organized so they are not a tripping hazard. Pods are responsible for minimizing risks associated with their equipment.

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The camp members shall collectively decide which day shall the camp infrastructure shall be broken down. All camp members present on that day agree to participate in breakdown to the greatest extent practical for them.

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Sanctioned projects may have a project leader and team members from separate pods. In such cases the uninvolved members of the pod\'s main responsibility toward their own pod is to relay information but not necessarily to take direct action or assist. This is a subtlety and not an exception to the indivisible pod. Pod members ensure that the right member of their pod gets the message to fulfill their portion of their pod\'s obligation. The project member fulfills the rest of their pod\'s obligation toward the sanctioned project. In this way project teams can be distributed across pods without obligating all members of a pod to participate (more than a little) in a given project. This respects the fact that people have different interests even if they are in the same pod.

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\r\nWe do stuff and we learn from the process. Sometimes we document what we learn or what we create.\r\n\r\nBefore there was a Camp Nosefish I went to Burning Man three times. Each time involved projects and learning. Here\'s some more content from that era:\r\n

','Nosefish Projects','','inherit','open','open','','48-revision-6','','','2012-04-10 18:36:34','2012-04-10 18:36:34','',48,'http://nosefish.org/?p=143',0,'revision','',0),(144,11,'2013-04-23 02:09:32','2013-04-23 02:09:32','Over the years Camp Nosefish has been the home of some innovative projects including:\r\n

\r\nWe do stuff and we learn from the process. Sometimes we document what we learn or what we create.\r\n\r\nBefore there was a Camp Nosefish I went to Burning Man three times. Each time involved projects and learning. Here\'s some more content from that era:\r\n

','Our Projects','','inherit','open','open','','48-revision-7','','','2013-04-23 02:09:32','2013-04-23 02:09:32','',48,'http://nosefish.org/?p=144',0,'revision','',0),(145,11,'2012-04-10 18:18:42','2012-04-10 18:18:42','Welcome to the Nosefish.org home page.\r\n\r\nCamp Nose Fish has been since 2003. We\'ve won \"Camp of the Day\" four times because of our commitment to green practices and providing fun, interactive experiences or services to the Burning Man community.\r\n\r\nBeginning in 2010 Nose Fish began providing EL Wire repair on the playa. The 2010 service was just two hours per day and was operated only by Howard Cohen. In 2011 camp members and volunteers swelled the ranks of technicians and service was provided for five days, five hours each day (11a-4p). We learned a lot about what can go wrong with EL Wire on the playa -- read our Tips and Tricks Page!\r\n\r\nBoth years we were equipped with EL Wire, drivers, connectors and many miscellaneous tools and materials by Benny at coolneon.com without whom there would be no EL Wire service on the playa, or probably much EL Wire at all on the playa, to be honest.\r\n\r\nIn 2011 Nose Fish will be back at Burning Man with a better organized, better equipped EL Wire repair service. 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The service will be provided Monday-Friday from 11am-4pm.\n\nBy night, the MEZ screen will delight the citizens of Black Rock City by providing and interactive visual adventure. Participants can watch their own movements be transformed into multicolored something images that encourage more people to join in and watch the fun!\n\nAlso, Nosefish will be the art support camp for the Beatmuffin art piece, created by long-time Nosefish member','What We Do','','inherit','open','open','','141-revision-2','','','2013-04-23 02:25:39','2013-04-23 02:25:39','',141,'http://nosefish.org/?p=147',0,'revision','',0),(148,11,'2013-04-23 02:26:39','2013-04-23 02:26:39','In 2013, Nosefish is proud to offer 3 great projects on the playa.\n\nBy day, we will be offering EL Wire Repair service, back by popular demand! Everyone loves being safe and beautiful by night in Black Rock City, but sometimes the harsh environment and activities of the playa can take their toll on EL Wire. 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We bring lots of spare parts and wire to replace whatever has broken. We also invite EL-Wire geeks to participate and provide service with us for the community. We invite people to donate their unused EL-Wire supplies so we can re-gift and reuse them for others. This will be the fourth year for our EL-Wire service. Would you like to contribute to our EL Wire Service? Find out how\r\n\r\nBy night, the MEZ screen will delight the citizens of Black Rock City by providing an interactive visual adventure from first dark through the early morning. It uses a digital video camera to receive a moving image of the scene in front of a large rear-projection video screen. The camera feeds into a computer that morphs the scene in real time and then sends it to a digital projector. 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Get more people and bikes lit at night: more people lit at all is better than fewer people lit more brightly

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Respect the Art: if you put a lot of time into your project, we\'re more likely to want to put more time into it as well

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Help more people: there\'s a lot of people in line behind you... what\'s the fastest way to help and still do a quality job?

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Conserve scarce resources: drivers are always in demand. If yours is dead you may get a smaller one that will still do the job. If three of yours died we may provide you with only one or two to run your project.

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Participants can watch their own movements be transformed into multicolored dynamic images that encourage more people to join in and watch the fun they create!\r\n\r\nAlso, Nosefish will be the art support camp for the Beatmuffin art piece, created by long-time Nosefish member, Alex. This art piece will be displayed on the open playa.\r\n\r\nWe will be located TBD\r\n\r\nOur camp plan TBA','What We Do - 2013','','inherit','open','open','','141-revision-5','','','2013-04-23 03:19:00','2013-04-23 03:19:00','',141,'http://nosefish.org/?p=157',0,'revision','',0),(158,11,'2012-04-10 18:09:11','2012-04-10 18:09:11','Want even more information about Nosefish? 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She is committed to overseeing all LNT practices in the camp and ensuring that all camp members comply with our cleanup plan from our initial arrival on the playa until we all leave. Andrea is also our Recycling Guru, who ensures we all recycle what can be recycled.\r\n\r\nLess is More\r\n\r\nOur philosophy is: less is more\r\n\r\nWe bring less stuff that doesn\'t matter and spend more time enjoying Burning Man. We\'ll certainly bring fun stuff like costumes, domes, camping equipment, art projects, etc., that allow us to interact with our fellow citizens of BRC. And we\'ll bring things to keep ourselves comfortable and well-fed regardless of the conditions. Of course we\'ll have tools and a few extra materials -- we have to anticipate the unexpected to reasonably balance the will of the desert. 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Above all, communication among camp members should be civil and constructive and people should endeavor to work together peacefully and respectfully.

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Camp members exist in groups (pods) of typically 2 or 3 people who collectively function as a unit and who collectively share responsibility and credit for their pod\'s contribution. Pods are a reflection of what already is, not a requirement. People can be in a pod of one, or any other combination they mutually choose.

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Each day each camp member will be in the camp during the event they accrue 2 hours of obligation toward the camp, some of which could possibly be spent on sanctioned camp activities before or after the event.

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If a camp member receives an early arrival pass, each day they are on the playa before the event opens they accrue 4 hours of obligation to the camp. We often don\'t need that many. Unused hours do not carry forward to the next day.

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Each person accrues 10 hours of obligated time for sanctioned pre-event and/or post-event camp activities. Each pod takes responsibility for its members finding a way to contribute to these activities by coordinating with the camp leader. You may convert off-playa hours into on-playa hours, and vice versa, so long as it is for a sanctioned project and the camp leader agrees.

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Projects are scaled and planned so that they do not exceed the obligated hours people have accrued during their stay within NoseFish. Projects should fail if they are poorly planned.

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Time spent on LNT is exclusive of your obligated hours -- you are required to follow LNT practices at all times within our camp in addition to your obligated time. The only exception is time spent on LNT-enabling activities by the LNT guru.

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Camp members are asked to consider whether or how much of a financial contribution toward sanctioned projects they can afford to make. Contributions are optional. Projects are scaled to the available funds.

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Camp members are allowed to work more hours if that is what they love to do, but that does not create any kind of expectation that anyone else will work that hard. The accrued obligated hours are the sum total of all the time that is required to be a fully-appreciated camp member.

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Pods are indivisible units of obligation and credit for effort. Pods are responsible for the sum total of their member\'s obligated time and agreed upon responsibilities. It is inappropriate for people outside the pod to interfere with how the pod divides its work or its time.

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Only a pod can bring in a new person to the camp and in doing so they take responsibility for teaching them the social contract and for their compliance.

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Camp members agree to speak up promptly when there is a problem that affects the camp or its sanctioned projects. In particular, if you recognize that a project is in jeopardy, you are obliged to bring it to the attention of its project leader or the camp leader as soon as you become aware of the problem. For example, if you anticipate that there won\'t be enough person-hours available to operate a project, or it is missing a critical component, etc.

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Camp members agree not to spend any more time on sanctioned projects or pre/post activities than their cumulative obligation unless working only that amount of time would diminish their experience. In other words, if you don\'t love to work, then don\'t exceed your obligated hours. Notify someone from the project leader\'s pod or the camp leader and then let the project fail after ensuring that such failure would not create an immediate safety or LNT hazard.

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Projects shall not be rescued by requiring anyone to work beyond their obligated hours. It is better that a project should fail than be rescued at the cost of anyone\'s enjoyment.

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Project plans must be presented to the camp leader no later than 30 days before the close of the Theme Camp application window to be considered for whether it might be a sanctioned project or not. Space, time, cost and risk estimates as well as a drawing are required pre-requisites for a meeting with the camp leader (at least) to consider whether the camp can afford the resources to sanction the project. However, there is no requirement that the camp leader be the first person to know about the project -- socialize the idea among the camp to see if there is interest before bothering to determine if there are resources. Unsanctioned projects must either be outside the camp or be quiet, small and safe to be allowed inside the camp.

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Each member is responsible for finding a way to fulfill their commitment to the social contract -- nobody is doing the accounting to make sure each person does their share.

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Pods are responsible for their own food, water and other supplies, as well as for their own bikes and camping gear and other supplies. They are to be contained so they do not become moop and organized so they are not a tripping hazard. Pods are responsible for minimizing risks associated with their equipment.

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The camp members shall collectively decide which day shall the camp infrastructure shall be broken down. All camp members present on that day agree to participate in breakdown to the greatest extent practical for them.

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Sanctioned projects may have a project leader and team members from separate pods. In such cases the uninvolved members of the pod\'s main responsibility toward their own pod is to relay information but not necessarily to take direct action or assist. This is a subtlety and not an exception to the indivisible pod. Pod members ensure that the right member of their pod gets the message to fulfill their portion of their pod\'s obligation. The project member fulfills the rest of their pod\'s obligation toward the sanctioned project. In this way project teams can be distributed across pods without obligating all members of a pod to participate (more than a little) in a given project. This respects the fact that people have different interests even if they are in the same pod.

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So, we have to have some priorities to guide us through the decision process for what to do and for whom.\n\nOur priorities are:\n\n

Get more people and bikes lit at night: more people lit at all is better than fewer people lit more brightly

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Respect the Art: if you put a lot of time into your project, we\'re more likely to want to put more time into it as well

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Help more people: there\'s a lot of people in line behind you... what\'s the fastest way to help and still do a quality job?

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Conserve scarce resources: drivers are always in demand. If yours is dead you may get a smaller one that will still do the job. If three of yours died we may provide you with only one or two to run your project.

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Get more people and bikes lit at night: more people lit at all is better than fewer people lit more brightly

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Respect the Art: if you put a lot of time into your project, we\'re more likely to want to put more time into it as well

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Help more people: there\'s a lot of people in line behind you... what\'s the fastest way to help and still do a quality job?

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Conserve scarce resources: drivers are always in demand. If yours is dead you may get a smaller one that will still do the job. If three of yours died we may provide you with only one or two to run your project.

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All donations are welcome and are used to bring repair supplies and parts to the playa, every little bit helps! Donations can be given via PayPal to the following account: paypal(at)robotikon(dot)com','How you can help','','inherit','open','open','','177-revision-5','','','2013-06-04 02:58:58','2013-06-04 02:58:58','',177,'http://nosefish.org/?p=190',0,'revision','',0),(216,11,'2013-06-12 22:11:20','2013-06-12 22:11:20','Again this year, Camp Nosefish EL Wire repair service will troubleshoot and repair your Playa-worn EL art pieces, Monday-Friday. You can help us provide replacement components for fellow citizens by gifting spare working EL drivers, battery holders, \"wire\", and heat shrink tubing to our EL repair station on the playa at Camp Nosefish between 11am - 4pm.\r\n\r\nDon\'t have spare parts? You can still help us with a small donation. We\'ll use it to buy more parts and supplies. Just click here and send a donation to paypal(at)robotikon(dot)com\r\n\r\nClick below to learn more:\r\n\r\nWanna help?\r\n\r\nEL wire Tips & Tricks\r\n\r\nWe look forward to seeing you on the Playa.','Gifting Luminescence','','publish','open','open','','gifting-luminescence-3','','','2013-06-12 22:11:20','2013-06-12 22:11:20','',0,'http://nosefish.org/?p=216',0,'post','',0),(217,11,'2013-06-12 22:10:08','2013-06-12 22:10:08','Again this year, Camp Nosefish EL Wire repair service will troubleshoot and repair your Playa-worn EL art pieces, Monday-Friday. You can help us provide replacement components for fellow citizens by gifting spare working EL drivers, battery holders, \"wire\", and heat shrink tubing to our EL repair station on the playa at Camp Nosefish between 11am - 4pm.\n\nDon\'t have spare parts? You can still help us with a small donation. We\'ll use it to buy more parts and supplies. Just click here and send a donation to paypal(at)robotikon(dot)com\n\nClick below to learn more:\n\nWanna help?\n\nEL wire Tips & Tricks\n\nWe look forward to seeing you on the Playa.','','','inherit','open','open','','216-revision','','','2013-06-12 22:10:08','2013-06-12 22:10:08','',216,'http://nosefish.org/?p=217',0,'revision','',0),(218,11,'2013-06-12 22:10:53','2013-06-12 22:10:53','Again this year, Camp Nosefish EL Wire repair service will troubleshoot and repair your Playa-worn EL art pieces, Monday-Friday. You can help us provide replacement components for fellow citizens by gifting spare working EL drivers, battery holders, \"wire\", and heat shrink tubing to our EL repair station on the playa at Camp Nosefish between 11am - 4pm.\r\n\r\nDon\'t have spare parts? You can still help us with a small donation. We\'ll use it to buy more parts and supplies. Just click here and send a donation to paypal(at)robotikon(dot)com\r\n\r\nClick below to learn more:\r\n\r\nWanna help?\r\n\r\nEL wire Tips & Tricks\r\n\r\nWe look forward to seeing you on the Playa.','Gifting Luminescence','','inherit','open','open','','216-revision-2','','','2013-06-12 22:10:53','2013-06-12 22:10:53','',216,'http://nosefish.org/?p=218',0,'revision','',0),(219,11,'2013-06-12 22:11:02','2013-06-12 22:11:02','Again this year, Camp Nosefish EL Wire repair service will troubleshoot and repair your Playa-worn EL art pieces, Monday-Friday. You can help us provide replacement components for fellow citizens by gifting spare working EL drivers, battery holders, \"wire\", and heat shrink tubing to our EL repair station on the playa at Camp Nosefish between 11am - 4pm.\r\n\r\nDon\'t have spare parts? You can still help us with a small donation. We\'ll use it to buy more parts and supplies. Just click here and send a donation to paypal(at)robotikon(dot)com\r\n\r\nClick below to learn more:\r\n\r\nWanna help?\r\n\r\nEL wire Tips & Tricks\r\n\r\nWe look forward to seeing you on the Playa.','Gifting Luminescence','','inherit','open','open','','216-revision-3','','','2013-06-12 22:11:02','2013-06-12 22:11:02','',216,'http://nosefish.org/?p=219',0,'revision','',0),(220,11,'2013-06-12 22:12:27','2013-06-12 22:12:27','Again this year, Camp Nosefish EL Wire repair service will troubleshoot and repair your Playa-worn EL art pieces, Monday-Friday. You can help us provide replacement components for fellow citizens by gifting spare working EL drivers, battery holders, \"wire\", and heat shrink tubing to our EL repair station on the playa at Camp Nosefish between 11am - 4pm.\n\nDon\'t have spare parts? You can still help us with a small donation. We\'ll use it to buy more parts and supplies. Just click here and send a donation to paypal(at)robotikon(dot)com\n\nClick below to learn more:\n\nWanna help?\n\nEL wire Tips & Tricks\n\nWe look forward to seeing you on the Playa.','Gifting Luminescence','','inherit','open','open','','216-autosave','','','2013-06-12 22:12:27','2013-06-12 22:12:27','',216,'http://nosefish.org/?p=220',0,'revision','',0),(222,1,'2013-04-25 05:05:55','2013-04-25 05:05:55','In 2013, Nosefish is proud to offer 3 great projects on the playa!\r\n\r\nBy day, we will be offering EL Wire Repair service, back by popular demand! Everyone loves being safe and beautiful by night in Black Rock City, but sometimes the harsh environment and activities of the playa can take their toll on EL Wire. Nosefish is here to help the participants of Black Rock City to troubleshoot and repair EL Wire on bikes, art, and clothes. The service will be provided Monday-Friday from 11am-4pm. We bring lots of spare parts and wire to replace whatever has broken. We also invite EL-Wire geeks to participate and provide service with us for the community. We invite people to donate their unused EL-Wire supplies so we can re-gift and reuse them for others. This will be the fourth year for our EL-Wire service. Would you like to contribute to our EL Wire Service? Find out how\r\n\r\nBy night, the MEZ screen will delight the citizens of Black Rock City by providing an interactive visual adventure from first dark through the early morning. It uses a digital video camera to receive a moving image of the scene in front of a large rear-projection video screen. The camera feeds into a computer that morphs the scene in real time and then sends it to a digital projector. Participants can watch their own movements be transformed into multicolored dynamic images that encourage more people to join in and watch the fun they create!\r\n\r\nAlso, this year Nose Fish is supporting the Beat Frequency Muffin project headed up by Aleks Zosuls. It will be a kinetic art project (with playa placement) that offers 24x7 interactivity. It is a fanciful \"antenna\" created as if imagined by the natives who are trying to reach John Frum. The antenna has a collection of devices that produce sounds. People can interact with it to make unique sounds. The antenna itself will have moving parts that can be controlled by participants. Our camp will be providing the infrastructure for Aleks and his team as they build and operate their project. Nose Fish elected to embrace Aleks\' project to support a new artist as they undertake their first large-scale art at Burning Man.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n ','What We Do - 2013','','inherit','open','open','','141-revision-12','','','2013-04-25 05:05:55','2013-04-25 05:05:55','',141,'http://nosefish.org/?p=222',0,'revision','',0),(223,1,'2013-08-17 23:10:32','2013-08-17 23:10:32','In 2013, Nosefish is proud to offer 3 great projects on the playa!\r\n\r\nWe\'re located in Center Camp at the 2:45 position (as if center camp were a clock seen from the top and if noon were facing the Man).\r\n\r\nBy day, we will be offering EL Wire Repair service, back by popular demand! Everyone loves being safe and beautiful by night in Black Rock City, but sometimes the harsh environment and activities of the playa can take their toll on EL Wire. Nosefish is here to help the participants of Black Rock City to troubleshoot and repair EL Wire on bikes, art, and clothes. The service will be provided Monday-Friday from 11am-4pm. We bring lots of spare parts and wire to replace whatever has broken. We also invite EL-Wire geeks to participate and provide service with us for the community. We invite people to donate their unused EL-Wire supplies so we can re-gift and reuse them for others. This will be the fourth year for our EL-Wire service. Would you like to contribute to our EL Wire Service? Find out how\r\n\r\nBy night, the MEZ screen will delight the citizens of Black Rock City by providing an interactive visual adventure from first dark through the early morning. It uses a digital video camera to receive a moving image of the scene in front of a large rear-projection video screen. The camera feeds into a computer that morphs the scene in real time and then sends it to a digital projector. Participants can watch their own movements be transformed into multicolored dynamic images that encourage more people to join in and watch the fun they create!\r\n\r\nAlso, this year Nose Fish is supporting the Beat Frequency Muffin project headed up by Aleks Zosuls. It will be a kinetic art project (with playa placement) that offers 24x7 interactivity. It is a fanciful \"antenna\" created as if imagined by the natives who are trying to reach John Frum. The antenna has a collection of devices that produce sounds. People can interact with it to make unique sounds. The antenna itself will have moving parts that can be controlled by participants. Our camp will be providing the infrastructure for Aleks and his team as they build and operate their project. Nose Fish elected to embrace Aleks\' project to support a new artist as they undertake their first large-scale art at Burning Man.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n ','What We Do - 2013','','inherit','open','open','','141-revision-13','','','2013-08-17 23:10:32','2013-08-17 23:10:32','',141,'http://nosefish.org/?p=223',0,'revision','',0),(224,1,'2013-09-15 23:28:48','2013-09-15 23:28:48','I\'ve operated the Nose Fish theme camp at Burning Man for ten years years. I wrote down some of what I do to operate the camp.\r\n\r\nMy goal as camp operator is to execute the camp\'s plans and leave no trace. Through the former I hope to help everyone in my camp fulfill our collective dream of providing a service and some art to our community. We love what we do together. It is still up to each camp member to plan and execute their own Burning Man experience. Their first duty to the camp is to be able to take good care of themselves so they can give from whatever excess time and energy they have.\r\n\r\nIn fact, I neither plan nor organize the camp myself. My wife contributes directly and indirectly and I would not be able to operate the camp without her. In fact, she has been with me every single year I accepted any responsibility for a theme camp. Our contribution is considered together -- together we operate the camp.\r\n\r\nOur camp has natural groups of 1, 2, 3 or more members. We recently started calling them \"pods\". Pods share responsibility and facilitate communication. They have a better chance of knowing the whereabouts and interests of other members of their pod. And, they are free to divide the tasks of their own Burning Man experience any way they wish, without informing anyone else of how they achieve the pods\' goals. Together they do and that is sufficient.\r\n\r\nMy camp uses a yahoo groups mailing list to reach each other. I use primarily email to reach the camp, but I often try to speak with new camp members over the phone.\r\n\r\nI plan for 40% failure. If I ask for help from five people, two won\'t show up, or won\'t be of much use. If bring the capacity to do or affect something, such as heaters, cookers, coolers, sprayers, etc., I overestimate our need by 40%, or underestimate the effectiveness.\r\n\r\nI plan transparently using Google Spreadsheets. Using different sheets in a workbook I list all of the things we will need in order to execute our shared infrastructure as well as my own Burning Man experience. I count things like sticks of rebar, tarps, and T-Stakes that will be needed. I create a drawing of the camp as a Google Drawing and add lines where power cables will need to be dug.\r\n\r\nIn fact, things are usually different once we arrive on the playa. The camp may be a different shape, or we may be adjacent to a road and such. For roads aside from our frontage we put up a trash fence with T-Stakes. We also try to light this so people can see it at night. We don\'t usually need a fence on other borders, but if neighbors stumble through our camp day and night we might. The one year we felt we needed a fence we also went out of our way to make a passage between our camp and the next so the camp behind us would have easy access. It wasn\'t hard -- we just chopped 10 feet of the side of our camp before we set it up and made sure our neighbors on the side didn\'t use that space. We lit the path too.\r\n\r\nWe like having our shade structure and kitchen really close to our frontage so people feel welcome to come into our camp. We like to have extra chairs ready for friends who drop by. In years when we put our shade further inside our camp people had to intrude or risk being thought of as intruders in order to even find someone in our camp.\r\n\r\nWe place \"Private Area\" signs on all of our tents, cars and private structures on the camp. This makes it clear to anyone who cares which areas are private and which are not. We do not expect privacy in our open shade structure right next to the road.\r\n\r\nWe use a Nose Fish Shower to capture our gray water. We treat most of it with a combination of filtration and bleach. Then we sprinkle it in camp. I ask people to process and sprinkle at least as much gray water as they produce. If this is a problem for someone, they can trade that job with someone else if the wish. Some people also just take their gray water home with them and dump it in a sewer: if you had room to bring the water, you should also be able to bring it home.\r\n\r\nWe have a role in our camp called \"LNT Guru\". The person in that role makes sure our recycling is separated based on how we are able to process it, and that garbage is separate from burnables, etc. That person\'s goal is to help the camp live up to our LNT commitment by enabling and encouraging it.\r\n\r\nWe use modified 1v domes as camp structures because they are easy to set up. The floor and horizontal ceiling struts are full sticks of 3/4\" EMT - 10 feet long (they just don\'t get cut). The 10 angled wall struts are cut to 8 and 1/2 feet and the five roof struts are cut to 9 feet. This makes big triangular doors you can walk through without bending over. Covering the sides is easy: a series of rectangles for the walls works fine. The roof is harder. You can use two or three large 12x16 tarps to cover most of it. Some people use tyvek or roadside advertisement sign vinyl where available. We used the latter and while it works well, it is very heavy and exhausting to work with. I like using the heavy-duty 12x16 tarps that can be purchased at CostCo in pairs for about $21 per pair.\r\n\r\nWe nail tarps into the playa under every dome and our kitchen structure. We use Glavanized 60d nails that are at least 8 inches long, together with a 3/8\" fender washer (cheaper when purchased in boxes!). We hammer these in through the grommet holes to keep the floor tarps down all week. To remove them twist them a few times with a vice grips and either pull them out or use a claw hammer if needed to level them up. Floor tarps get folded up carefully and held closed with bungie cords so they don\'t spill their contents. We clean them at home.\r\n\r\nI always bring a collection of tools and materials, fasteners, rope and spare parts and supplies for mission-critical components. I bring extra fuses and the replacement ends to repair extension cords, and on and on. I bring WD-40 and glues and tape. I bring a hobby knife and spare blades, assorted wrenches and hand tools. I think about how things fail and what kinds of things I\'m willing to try to repair on the playa. I bring a modest collection of tools -- what will fit in one toolbox, together with my electronics tools in another toolbox that I use for my camp\'s main service. I keep these tools in what we call our \"garage dome\" which is a 1v dome at the back of our camp. A table there contains all the tools and materials and everyone in camp is welcome to use them. I label all the expensive or important ones with our camp name and location. They come back that way.\r\n\r\nBefore we leave I make sure I know approximately when people will arrive and I plan what work we might attempt each day. Some work can\'t be done until someone arrives with their components, so I try to ensure they bring things we don\'t need until later.\r\n\r\nOnce we\'re on playa I try not to ask people to work in the middle of the day. If the day is cool enough we might do some work, especially if it isn\'t strenuous. Many people are uncomfortable or lack energy on the second and third day they are on the playa. I try to encourage people to drink and rest and not to push themselves. My wife reminds me of the same things because I tend to want to work if I still have some energy. But the first few days can be hard and exhausting just to get the initial camp infrastructure deployed.\r\n\r\nWe break our camp down on Saturday, the day the Man burns. By the time the Man burns all of the camp\'s infrastructure has been broken down and loaded into two cargo vans. Camp members are welcome to stay longer, but the camp closes Burn Night and there is no more fence, shower, kitchen, shade, garage dome or anything aside from people\'s personal tents, bikes and cars. My wife and I leave the playa around 2am -- a few hours after the Man Burns. By then we\'ve been on-playa for eleven days and we\'re ready to go home.\r\n\r\nWe have a camp Decompression event every year to talk about what worked and what didn\'t. Sometimes they are not well attended because everyone is so busy when they return from the Playa, but we try to capture ideas while they are fresh in people\'s minds.\r\n\r\nI try to remember when I ask people to do things for the camp that everyone is a volunteer. I\'m not actually entitled to anyone\'s time or assistance for any particular thing. They do have a general obligation to the camp to \"help\" but that doesn\'t mean they have to do what I say when I say it. So, at most I try to make requests: never demands.\r\n\r\nI also try to say Yes whenever I can when people volunteer to do things. Unless I really need their help some other way, and unless it will create an LNT problem, and unless it is a violation of our social contract with Burning Man or is dangerously illegal, then my answer is probably going to be Yes.\r\n\r\nBased on recent experiences, I think I will add to my list of things to do to monitor the progress of art projects run by camp members to provide feedback on when to scale back or even cease work and go off and enjoy Burning Man. People, especially on their first big art project, will take on ambitious goals and struggle in the desert to meet them. I will often remind myself and others that nobody knows what it is supposed to look like. So, a project can be considered done at points other than just the form imagined by the artist. People can drive themselves to a point where they don\'t enjoy Burning Man at all, because of an obsession with a project. I\'ve tried the hands-off approach. It sucked for everyone involved. I think I will try something else next time.\r\n\r\n ','Camp Organizer\'s Notes','','publish','open','open','','camp-organizers-notes','','','2013-09-15 23:53:47','2013-09-15 23:53:47','',48,'http://nosefish.org/?page_id=224',0,'page','',0),(225,1,'2013-09-15 22:13:07','2013-09-15 22:13:07','These are some ideas for camp organizers. It is based on my experience running the Nose Fish theme camp at Burning Man for seven years. So, it is obviously just my opinion.\n\nMy goal as camp organizer is to execute the camp\'s plans and leave no trace. Through the former I hope to help everyone in my camp fulfill our collective dream of providing a service and some art to our community. We love what we do together.\n\n \n\n ','Camp Organizer\'s Notes','','inherit','open','open','','224-revision','','','2013-09-15 22:13:07','2013-09-15 22:13:07','',224,'http://nosefish.org/?p=225',0,'revision','',0),(226,1,'2013-09-15 22:24:38','2013-09-15 22:24:38','These are some ideas for camp organizers. It is based on my experience running the Nose Fish theme camp at Burning Man for seven years. So, it is obviously just my opinion.\n\nMy goal as camp organizer is to execute the camp\'s plans and leave no trace. Through the former I hope to help everyone in my camp fulfill our collective dream of providing a service and some art to our community. We love what we do together. It is still up to each camp member to plan and execute their own Burning Man experience. Their first duty to the camp is to be able to take good care of themselves so they can give from whatever excess time and energy they have.\n\nIn fact, I neither plan nor organize the camp myself. My wife contributes directly and indirectly and I would not be able to operate the camp without her. In fact, she has been with me every single year I accepted any responsibility for a theme camp. Our contribution is considered together -- together we operate the camp.\n\nOur camp has natural groups of 1, 2, 3 or more members. We sometimes recently started calling them \"pods.\"\n\nI plan for 40% failure. If I ask for help from five people, two won\'t show up, or won\'t be of much use. If bring the capacity to do or affect something, such as heaters, cookers, coolers, sprayers, etc., I overestimate our need by 40%, or underestimate the effectiveness.\n\nI plan transparently using Google Spreadsheets. Using different sheets in a workbook I list all of the things we will need to execute our shared infrastructure as well as my own Burning Man experience.\n\n \n\n ','Camp Organizer\'s Notes','','inherit','open','open','','224-revision-2','','','2013-09-15 22:24:38','2013-09-15 22:24:38','',224,'http://nosefish.org/?p=226',0,'revision','',0),(227,1,'2013-09-15 22:39:42','2013-09-15 22:39:42','These are some ideas for camp organizers. It is based on my experience running the Nose Fish theme camp at Burning Man for seven years. So, it is obviously just my opinion.\n\nMy goal as camp organizer is to execute the camp\'s plans and leave no trace. Through the former I hope to help everyone in my camp fulfill our collective dream of providing a service and some art to our community. We love what we do together. It is still up to each camp member to plan and execute their own Burning Man experience. Their first duty to the camp is to be able to take good care of themselves so they can give from whatever excess time and energy they have.\n\nIn fact, I neither plan nor organize the camp myself. My wife contributes directly and indirectly and I would not be able to operate the camp without her. In fact, she has been with me every single year I accepted any responsibility for a theme camp. Our contribution is considered together -- together we operate the camp.\n\nOur camp has natural groups of 1, 2, 3 or more members. We recently started calling them \"pods\". Pods share responsibility and facilitate communication. They have a better chance of knowing the whereabouts and interests of other members of their pod. And, they are free to divide the tasks of their own Burning Man experience any way they wish, without informing anyone else of how they achieve the pods\' goals. Together they do and that is sufficient.\n\nI plan for 40% failure. If I ask for help from five people, two won\'t show up, or won\'t be of much use. If bring the capacity to do or affect something, such as heaters, cookers, coolers, sprayers, etc., I overestimate our need by 40%, or underestimate the effectiveness.\n\nI plan transparently using Google Spreadsheets. Using different sheets in a workbook I list all of the things we will need in order to execute our shared infrastructure as well as my own Burning Man experience. I count things like sticks of rebar, tarps, and T-Stakes that will be needed. I create a drawing of the camp as a Google Drawing and add lines where power cables will need to be dug.\n\nIn fact, things are usually different once we arrive on the playa. The camp may be a different shape, or we may be adjacent to a road and such. For roads aside from our frontage we put up a trash fence with T-Stakes. We also try to light this so people can see it at night. We don\'t usually need a fence on other borders, but if neighbors stumble through our camp day and night we might. The one year we felt we needed a fence we also went out of our way to make a passage between our camp and the next so the camp behind us would have easy access. It wasn\'t hard -- we just chopped 10 feet of the side of our camp before we set it up and made sure our neighbors on the side didn\'t use that space. We lit the path too.\n\nWe like having our shade structure and kitchen really close to our frontage so people feel welcome to come into our camp. We like to have extra chairs ready for friends who drop by. In years when we put our shade further inside our camp people had to intrude or risk being thought of as intruders in order to even find someone in our camp.\n\nWe place \"Private Area\" signs on all of our tents, cars and private structures on the camp. This makes it clear to anyone who cares which areas are private and which are not. We do not expect privacy in our open shade structure right next to the road.\n\nWe use a Nose Fish Shower to capture our gray water. We treat most of it with a combination of filtration and bleach. Then we sprinkle it in camp. I ask people to process and sprinkle at least as much gray water as they produce. If this is a problem for someone, they can trade that job with someone else if the wish. Some people also just take their gray water home with them and dump it in a sewer\n\n \n\n ','Camp Organizer\'s Notes','','inherit','open','open','','224-revision-3','','','2013-09-15 22:39:42','2013-09-15 22:39:42','',224,'http://nosefish.org/?p=227',0,'revision','',0),(228,1,'2013-09-15 22:54:02','2013-09-15 22:54:02','These are some ideas for camp organizers. It is based on my experience running the Nose Fish theme camp at Burning Man for seven years. So, it is obviously just my opinion.\n\nMy goal as camp organizer is to execute the camp\'s plans and leave no trace. Through the former I hope to help everyone in my camp fulfill our collective dream of providing a service and some art to our community. We love what we do together. It is still up to each camp member to plan and execute their own Burning Man experience. Their first duty to the camp is to be able to take good care of themselves so they can give from whatever excess time and energy they have.\n\nIn fact, I neither plan nor organize the camp myself. My wife contributes directly and indirectly and I would not be able to operate the camp without her. In fact, she has been with me every single year I accepted any responsibility for a theme camp. Our contribution is considered together -- together we operate the camp.\n\nOur camp has natural groups of 1, 2, 3 or more members. We recently started calling them \"pods\". Pods share responsibility and facilitate communication. They have a better chance of knowing the whereabouts and interests of other members of their pod. And, they are free to divide the tasks of their own Burning Man experience any way they wish, without informing anyone else of how they achieve the pods\' goals. Together they do and that is sufficient.\n\nI plan for 40% failure. If I ask for help from five people, two won\'t show up, or won\'t be of much use. If bring the capacity to do or affect something, such as heaters, cookers, coolers, sprayers, etc., I overestimate our need by 40%, or underestimate the effectiveness.\n\nI plan transparently using Google Spreadsheets. Using different sheets in a workbook I list all of the things we will need in order to execute our shared infrastructure as well as my own Burning Man experience. I count things like sticks of rebar, tarps, and T-Stakes that will be needed. I create a drawing of the camp as a Google Drawing and add lines where power cables will need to be dug.\n\nIn fact, things are usually different once we arrive on the playa. The camp may be a different shape, or we may be adjacent to a road and such. For roads aside from our frontage we put up a trash fence with T-Stakes. We also try to light this so people can see it at night. We don\'t usually need a fence on other borders, but if neighbors stumble through our camp day and night we might. The one year we felt we needed a fence we also went out of our way to make a passage between our camp and the next so the camp behind us would have easy access. It wasn\'t hard -- we just chopped 10 feet of the side of our camp before we set it up and made sure our neighbors on the side didn\'t use that space. We lit the path too.\n\nWe like having our shade structure and kitchen really close to our frontage so people feel welcome to come into our camp. We like to have extra chairs ready for friends who drop by. In years when we put our shade further inside our camp people had to intrude or risk being thought of as intruders in order to even find someone in our camp.\n\nWe place \"Private Area\" signs on all of our tents, cars and private structures on the camp. This makes it clear to anyone who cares which areas are private and which are not. We do not expect privacy in our open shade structure right next to the road.\n\nWe use a Nose Fish Shower to capture our gray water. We treat most of it with a combination of filtration and bleach. Then we sprinkle it in camp. I ask people to process and sprinkle at least as much gray water as they produce. If this is a problem for someone, they can trade that job with someone else if the wish. Some people also just take their gray water home with them and dump it in a sewer: if you had room to bring the water, you should also be able to bring it home.\n\nWe have a role in our camp called \"LNT Guru\". The person in that role makes sure our recycling is separated based on how we are able to process it, and that garbage is separate from burnables, etc. That person\'s goal is to help the camp live up to our LNT commitment by enabling and encouraging it.\n\nWe use modified 1v domes as camp structures because they are easy to set up. The floor and horizontal ceiling struts are full sticks of 3/4\" EMT - 10 feet long (they just don\'t get cut). The 10 angled wall struts are cut to 8 and 1/2 feet and the five roof struts are cut to 9 feet. This makes big triangular doors you can walk through without bending over. Covering the sides is easy: a series of rectangles for the walls works fine. The roof is harder. You can use two or three large 12x16 tarps to cover most of it. Some people use tyvek or roadside advertisement sign vinyl where available. We used the latter and while it works well, it is very heavy and exhausting to work with. I like using the heavy-duty 12x16 tarps that can be purchased at CostCo in pairs for about $21 per pair.\n\nWe nail tarps into the playa under every dome and our kitchen structure. We use Glavanized 60d nails that are at least 8 inches long, together with a 3/8\" fender washer (cheaper when purchased in boxes!). We hammer these in through the grommet holes to keep the floor tarps down all week. To remove them twist them a few times with a vice grips and either pull them out or use a claw hammer if needed to level them up. These tarps get folded up carefully and bungied\n\n ','Camp Organizer\'s Notes','','inherit','open','open','','224-revision-4','','','2013-09-15 22:54:02','2013-09-15 22:54:02','',224,'http://nosefish.org/?p=228',0,'revision','',0),(229,1,'2013-09-15 23:27:54','2013-09-15 23:27:54','These are some ideas for camp organizers. It is based on my experience running the Nose Fish theme camp at Burning Man for seven years. So, it is obviously just my opinion.\n\nMy goal as camp organizer is to execute the camp\'s plans and leave no trace. Through the former I hope to help everyone in my camp fulfill our collective dream of providing a service and some art to our community. We love what we do together. It is still up to each camp member to plan and execute their own Burning Man experience. Their first duty to the camp is to be able to take good care of themselves so they can give from whatever excess time and energy they have.\n\nIn fact, I neither plan nor organize the camp myself. My wife contributes directly and indirectly and I would not be able to operate the camp without her. In fact, she has been with me every single year I accepted any responsibility for a theme camp. Our contribution is considered together -- together we operate the camp.\n\nOur camp has natural groups of 1, 2, 3 or more members. We recently started calling them \"pods\". Pods share responsibility and facilitate communication. They have a better chance of knowing the whereabouts and interests of other members of their pod. And, they are free to divide the tasks of their own Burning Man experience any way they wish, without informing anyone else of how they achieve the pods\' goals. Together they do and that is sufficient.\n\nMy camp uses a yahoo groups mailing list to reach each other. I use primarily email to reach the camp, but I often try to speak with new camp members over the phone.\n\nI plan for 40% failure. If I ask for help from five people, two won\'t show up, or won\'t be of much use. If bring the capacity to do or affect something, such as heaters, cookers, coolers, sprayers, etc., I overestimate our need by 40%, or underestimate the effectiveness.\n\nI plan transparently using Google Spreadsheets. Using different sheets in a workbook I list all of the things we will need in order to execute our shared infrastructure as well as my own Burning Man experience. I count things like sticks of rebar, tarps, and T-Stakes that will be needed. I create a drawing of the camp as a Google Drawing and add lines where power cables will need to be dug.\n\nIn fact, things are usually different once we arrive on the playa. The camp may be a different shape, or we may be adjacent to a road and such. For roads aside from our frontage we put up a trash fence with T-Stakes. We also try to light this so people can see it at night. We don\'t usually need a fence on other borders, but if neighbors stumble through our camp day and night we might. The one year we felt we needed a fence we also went out of our way to make a passage between our camp and the next so the camp behind us would have easy access. It wasn\'t hard -- we just chopped 10 feet of the side of our camp before we set it up and made sure our neighbors on the side didn\'t use that space. We lit the path too.\n\nWe like having our shade structure and kitchen really close to our frontage so people feel welcome to come into our camp. We like to have extra chairs ready for friends who drop by. In years when we put our shade further inside our camp people had to intrude or risk being thought of as intruders in order to even find someone in our camp.\n\nWe place \"Private Area\" signs on all of our tents, cars and private structures on the camp. This makes it clear to anyone who cares which areas are private and which are not. We do not expect privacy in our open shade structure right next to the road.\n\nWe use a Nose Fish Shower to capture our gray water. We treat most of it with a combination of filtration and bleach. Then we sprinkle it in camp. I ask people to process and sprinkle at least as much gray water as they produce. If this is a problem for someone, they can trade that job with someone else if the wish. Some people also just take their gray water home with them and dump it in a sewer: if you had room to bring the water, you should also be able to bring it home.\n\nWe have a role in our camp called \"LNT Guru\". The person in that role makes sure our recycling is separated based on how we are able to process it, and that garbage is separate from burnables, etc. That person\'s goal is to help the camp live up to our LNT commitment by enabling and encouraging it.\n\nWe use modified 1v domes as camp structures because they are easy to set up. The floor and horizontal ceiling struts are full sticks of 3/4\" EMT - 10 feet long (they just don\'t get cut). The 10 angled wall struts are cut to 8 and 1/2 feet and the five roof struts are cut to 9 feet. This makes big triangular doors you can walk through without bending over. Covering the sides is easy: a series of rectangles for the walls works fine. The roof is harder. You can use two or three large 12x16 tarps to cover most of it. Some people use tyvek or roadside advertisement sign vinyl where available. We used the latter and while it works well, it is very heavy and exhausting to work with. I like using the heavy-duty 12x16 tarps that can be purchased at CostCo in pairs for about $21 per pair.\n\nWe nail tarps into the playa under every dome and our kitchen structure. We use Glavanized 60d nails that are at least 8 inches long, together with a 3/8\" fender washer (cheaper when purchased in boxes!). We hammer these in through the grommet holes to keep the floor tarps down all week. To remove them twist them a few times with a vice grips and either pull them out or use a claw hammer if needed to level them up. Floor tarps get folded up carefully and held closed with bungie cords so they don\'t spill their contents. We clean them at home.\n\nI always bring a collection of tools and materials, fasteners, rope and spare parts and supplies for mission-critical components. I bring extra fuses and the replacement ends to repair extension cords, and on and on. I bring WD-40 and glues and tape. I bring a hobby knife and spare blades, assorted wrenches and hand tools. I think about how things fail and what kinds of things I\'m willing to try to repair on the playa. I bring a modest collection of tools -- what will fit in one toolbox, together with my electronics tools in another toolbox that I use for my camp\'s main service. I keep these tools in what we call our \"garage dome\" which is a 1v dome at the back of our camp. A table there contains all the tools and materials and everyone in camp is welcome to use them. I label all the expensive or important ones with our camp name and location. They come back that way.\n\nBefore we leave I make sure I know approximately when people will arrive and I plan what work we might attempt each day. Some work can\'t be done until someone arrives with their components, so I try to ensure they bring things we don\'t need until later.\n\nOnce we\'re on playa I try not to ask people to work in the middle of the day. If the day is cool enough we might do some work, especially if it isn\'t strenuous. Many people are uncomfortable or lack energy on the second and third day they are on the playa. I try to encourage people to drink and rest and not to push themselves. My wife reminds me of the same things because I tend to want to work if I still have some energy. But the first few days can be hard and exhausting just to get the initial camp infrastructure deployed.\n\nWe break our camp down on Saturday, the day the Man burns. By the time the Man burns all of the camp\'s infrastructure has been broken down and loaded into two cargo vans. Camp members are welcome to stay longer, but the camp closes Burn Night and there is no more fence, shower, kitchen, shade, garage dome or anything aside from people\'s personal tents, bikes and cars. My wife and I leave the playa around 2am -- a few hours after the Man Burns. By then we\'ve been on-playa for eleven days and we\'re ready to go home.\n\nWe have a camp Decompression event every year to talk about what worked and what didn\'t. Sometimes they are not well attended because everyone is so busy when they return from the Playa, but we try to capture ideas while they are fresh in people\'s minds.\n\nI try to remember when I ask people to do things for the camp that everyone is a volunteer. I\'m not actually entitled to anyone\'s time or assistance for any particular thing. They do have a general obligation to the camp to \"help\" but that doesn\'t mean they have to do what I say when I say it. So, at most I try to make requests: never demands.\n\nI also try to say Yes whenever I can when people volunteer to do things. Unless I really need their help some other way, and unless it will create an LNT problem, and unless it is a violation of our social contract with Burning Man or is dangerously illegal, then my answer is probably going to be Yes.\n\nBased on recent experiences, I think I will add to my list of things to do to monitor the progress of art projects run by camp members to provide feedback on when to scale back or even cease work and go off and enjoy Burning Man. People, especially on their first big art project, will take on ambitious goals and struggle in the desert to meet them. I will often remind myself and others that nobody knows what it is supposed to look like. So, a project can be considered done at points other than just the form imagined by the artist. People can drive themselves to a point where they don\'t enjoy Burning Man at all, because of an obsession with a project. If it is\n\n ','Camp Organizer\'s Notes','','inherit','open','open','','224-revision-5','','','2013-09-15 23:27:54','2013-09-15 23:27:54','',224,'http://nosefish.org/?p=229',0,'revision','',0),(230,1,'2013-09-15 23:28:43','2013-09-15 23:28:43','These are some ideas for camp organizers. It is based on my experience running the Nose Fish theme camp at Burning Man for seven years. So, it is obviously just my opinion.\r\n\r\nMy goal as camp organizer is to execute the camp\'s plans and leave no trace. Through the former I hope to help everyone in my camp fulfill our collective dream of providing a service and some art to our community. We love what we do together. It is still up to each camp member to plan and execute their own Burning Man experience. Their first duty to the camp is to be able to take good care of themselves so they can give from whatever excess time and energy they have.\r\n\r\nIn fact, I neither plan nor organize the camp myself. My wife contributes directly and indirectly and I would not be able to operate the camp without her. In fact, she has been with me every single year I accepted any responsibility for a theme camp. Our contribution is considered together -- together we operate the camp.\r\n\r\nOur camp has natural groups of 1, 2, 3 or more members. We recently started calling them \"pods\". Pods share responsibility and facilitate communication. They have a better chance of knowing the whereabouts and interests of other members of their pod. And, they are free to divide the tasks of their own Burning Man experience any way they wish, without informing anyone else of how they achieve the pods\' goals. Together they do and that is sufficient.\r\n\r\nMy camp uses a yahoo groups mailing list to reach each other. I use primarily email to reach the camp, but I often try to speak with new camp members over the phone.\r\n\r\nI plan for 40% failure. If I ask for help from five people, two won\'t show up, or won\'t be of much use. If bring the capacity to do or affect something, such as heaters, cookers, coolers, sprayers, etc., I overestimate our need by 40%, or underestimate the effectiveness.\r\n\r\nI plan transparently using Google Spreadsheets. Using different sheets in a workbook I list all of the things we will need in order to execute our shared infrastructure as well as my own Burning Man experience. I count things like sticks of rebar, tarps, and T-Stakes that will be needed. I create a drawing of the camp as a Google Drawing and add lines where power cables will need to be dug.\r\n\r\nIn fact, things are usually different once we arrive on the playa. The camp may be a different shape, or we may be adjacent to a road and such. For roads aside from our frontage we put up a trash fence with T-Stakes. We also try to light this so people can see it at night. We don\'t usually need a fence on other borders, but if neighbors stumble through our camp day and night we might. The one year we felt we needed a fence we also went out of our way to make a passage between our camp and the next so the camp behind us would have easy access. It wasn\'t hard -- we just chopped 10 feet of the side of our camp before we set it up and made sure our neighbors on the side didn\'t use that space. We lit the path too.\r\n\r\nWe like having our shade structure and kitchen really close to our frontage so people feel welcome to come into our camp. We like to have extra chairs ready for friends who drop by. In years when we put our shade further inside our camp people had to intrude or risk being thought of as intruders in order to even find someone in our camp.\r\n\r\nWe place \"Private Area\" signs on all of our tents, cars and private structures on the camp. This makes it clear to anyone who cares which areas are private and which are not. We do not expect privacy in our open shade structure right next to the road.\r\n\r\nWe use a Nose Fish Shower to capture our gray water. We treat most of it with a combination of filtration and bleach. Then we sprinkle it in camp. I ask people to process and sprinkle at least as much gray water as they produce. If this is a problem for someone, they can trade that job with someone else if the wish. Some people also just take their gray water home with them and dump it in a sewer: if you had room to bring the water, you should also be able to bring it home.\r\n\r\nWe have a role in our camp called \"LNT Guru\". The person in that role makes sure our recycling is separated based on how we are able to process it, and that garbage is separate from burnables, etc. That person\'s goal is to help the camp live up to our LNT commitment by enabling and encouraging it.\r\n\r\nWe use modified 1v domes as camp structures because they are easy to set up. The floor and horizontal ceiling struts are full sticks of 3/4\" EMT - 10 feet long (they just don\'t get cut). The 10 angled wall struts are cut to 8 and 1/2 feet and the five roof struts are cut to 9 feet. This makes big triangular doors you can walk through without bending over. Covering the sides is easy: a series of rectangles for the walls works fine. The roof is harder. You can use two or three large 12x16 tarps to cover most of it. Some people use tyvek or roadside advertisement sign vinyl where available. We used the latter and while it works well, it is very heavy and exhausting to work with. I like using the heavy-duty 12x16 tarps that can be purchased at CostCo in pairs for about $21 per pair.\r\n\r\nWe nail tarps into the playa under every dome and our kitchen structure. We use Glavanized 60d nails that are at least 8 inches long, together with a 3/8\" fender washer (cheaper when purchased in boxes!). We hammer these in through the grommet holes to keep the floor tarps down all week. To remove them twist them a few times with a vice grips and either pull them out or use a claw hammer if needed to level them up. Floor tarps get folded up carefully and held closed with bungie cords so they don\'t spill their contents. We clean them at home.\r\n\r\nI always bring a collection of tools and materials, fasteners, rope and spare parts and supplies for mission-critical components. I bring extra fuses and the replacement ends to repair extension cords, and on and on. I bring WD-40 and glues and tape. I bring a hobby knife and spare blades, assorted wrenches and hand tools. I think about how things fail and what kinds of things I\'m willing to try to repair on the playa. I bring a modest collection of tools -- what will fit in one toolbox, together with my electronics tools in another toolbox that I use for my camp\'s main service. I keep these tools in what we call our \"garage dome\" which is a 1v dome at the back of our camp. A table there contains all the tools and materials and everyone in camp is welcome to use them. I label all the expensive or important ones with our camp name and location. They come back that way.\r\n\r\nBefore we leave I make sure I know approximately when people will arrive and I plan what work we might attempt each day. Some work can\'t be done until someone arrives with their components, so I try to ensure they bring things we don\'t need until later.\r\n\r\nOnce we\'re on playa I try not to ask people to work in the middle of the day. If the day is cool enough we might do some work, especially if it isn\'t strenuous. Many people are uncomfortable or lack energy on the second and third day they are on the playa. I try to encourage people to drink and rest and not to push themselves. My wife reminds me of the same things because I tend to want to work if I still have some energy. But the first few days can be hard and exhausting just to get the initial camp infrastructure deployed.\r\n\r\nWe break our camp down on Saturday, the day the Man burns. By the time the Man burns all of the camp\'s infrastructure has been broken down and loaded into two cargo vans. Camp members are welcome to stay longer, but the camp closes Burn Night and there is no more fence, shower, kitchen, shade, garage dome or anything aside from people\'s personal tents, bikes and cars. My wife and I leave the playa around 2am -- a few hours after the Man Burns. By then we\'ve been on-playa for eleven days and we\'re ready to go home.\r\n\r\nWe have a camp Decompression event every year to talk about what worked and what didn\'t. Sometimes they are not well attended because everyone is so busy when they return from the Playa, but we try to capture ideas while they are fresh in people\'s minds.\r\n\r\nI try to remember when I ask people to do things for the camp that everyone is a volunteer. I\'m not actually entitled to anyone\'s time or assistance for any particular thing. They do have a general obligation to the camp to \"help\" but that doesn\'t mean they have to do what I say when I say it. So, at most I try to make requests: never demands.\r\n\r\nI also try to say Yes whenever I can when people volunteer to do things. Unless I really need their help some other way, and unless it will create an LNT problem, and unless it is a violation of our social contract with Burning Man or is dangerously illegal, then my answer is probably going to be Yes.\r\n\r\nBased on recent experiences, I think I will add to my list of things to do to monitor the progress of art projects run by camp members to provide feedback on when to scale back or even cease work and go off and enjoy Burning Man. People, especially on their first big art project, will take on ambitious goals and struggle in the desert to meet them. I will often remind myself and others that nobody knows what it is supposed to look like. So, a project can be considered done at points other than just the form imagined by the artist. People can drive themselves to a point where they don\'t enjoy Burning Man at all, because of an obsession with a project. I\'ve tried the hands-off approach. It sucked for everyone involved. I think I will try something else next time.\r\n\r\n ','Camp Organizer\'s Notes','','inherit','open','open','','224-revision-6','','','2013-09-15 23:28:43','2013-09-15 23:28:43','',224,'http://nosefish.org/?p=230',0,'revision','',0),(231,1,'2013-09-15 23:28:48','2013-09-15 23:28:48','These are some ideas for camp organizers. It is based on my experience running the Nose Fish theme camp at Burning Man for seven years. So, it is obviously just my opinion.\r\n\r\nMy goal as camp organizer is to execute the camp\'s plans and leave no trace. Through the former I hope to help everyone in my camp fulfill our collective dream of providing a service and some art to our community. We love what we do together. It is still up to each camp member to plan and execute their own Burning Man experience. Their first duty to the camp is to be able to take good care of themselves so they can give from whatever excess time and energy they have.\r\n\r\nIn fact, I neither plan nor organize the camp myself. My wife contributes directly and indirectly and I would not be able to operate the camp without her. In fact, she has been with me every single year I accepted any responsibility for a theme camp. Our contribution is considered together -- together we operate the camp.\r\n\r\nOur camp has natural groups of 1, 2, 3 or more members. We recently started calling them \"pods\". Pods share responsibility and facilitate communication. They have a better chance of knowing the whereabouts and interests of other members of their pod. And, they are free to divide the tasks of their own Burning Man experience any way they wish, without informing anyone else of how they achieve the pods\' goals. Together they do and that is sufficient.\r\n\r\nMy camp uses a yahoo groups mailing list to reach each other. I use primarily email to reach the camp, but I often try to speak with new camp members over the phone.\r\n\r\nI plan for 40% failure. If I ask for help from five people, two won\'t show up, or won\'t be of much use. If bring the capacity to do or affect something, such as heaters, cookers, coolers, sprayers, etc., I overestimate our need by 40%, or underestimate the effectiveness.\r\n\r\nI plan transparently using Google Spreadsheets. Using different sheets in a workbook I list all of the things we will need in order to execute our shared infrastructure as well as my own Burning Man experience. I count things like sticks of rebar, tarps, and T-Stakes that will be needed. I create a drawing of the camp as a Google Drawing and add lines where power cables will need to be dug.\r\n\r\nIn fact, things are usually different once we arrive on the playa. The camp may be a different shape, or we may be adjacent to a road and such. For roads aside from our frontage we put up a trash fence with T-Stakes. We also try to light this so people can see it at night. We don\'t usually need a fence on other borders, but if neighbors stumble through our camp day and night we might. The one year we felt we needed a fence we also went out of our way to make a passage between our camp and the next so the camp behind us would have easy access. It wasn\'t hard -- we just chopped 10 feet of the side of our camp before we set it up and made sure our neighbors on the side didn\'t use that space. We lit the path too.\r\n\r\nWe like having our shade structure and kitchen really close to our frontage so people feel welcome to come into our camp. We like to have extra chairs ready for friends who drop by. In years when we put our shade further inside our camp people had to intrude or risk being thought of as intruders in order to even find someone in our camp.\r\n\r\nWe place \"Private Area\" signs on all of our tents, cars and private structures on the camp. This makes it clear to anyone who cares which areas are private and which are not. We do not expect privacy in our open shade structure right next to the road.\r\n\r\nWe use a Nose Fish Shower to capture our gray water. We treat most of it with a combination of filtration and bleach. Then we sprinkle it in camp. I ask people to process and sprinkle at least as much gray water as they produce. If this is a problem for someone, they can trade that job with someone else if the wish. Some people also just take their gray water home with them and dump it in a sewer: if you had room to bring the water, you should also be able to bring it home.\r\n\r\nWe have a role in our camp called \"LNT Guru\". The person in that role makes sure our recycling is separated based on how we are able to process it, and that garbage is separate from burnables, etc. That person\'s goal is to help the camp live up to our LNT commitment by enabling and encouraging it.\r\n\r\nWe use modified 1v domes as camp structures because they are easy to set up. The floor and horizontal ceiling struts are full sticks of 3/4\" EMT - 10 feet long (they just don\'t get cut). The 10 angled wall struts are cut to 8 and 1/2 feet and the five roof struts are cut to 9 feet. This makes big triangular doors you can walk through without bending over. Covering the sides is easy: a series of rectangles for the walls works fine. The roof is harder. You can use two or three large 12x16 tarps to cover most of it. Some people use tyvek or roadside advertisement sign vinyl where available. We used the latter and while it works well, it is very heavy and exhausting to work with. I like using the heavy-duty 12x16 tarps that can be purchased at CostCo in pairs for about $21 per pair.\r\n\r\nWe nail tarps into the playa under every dome and our kitchen structure. We use Glavanized 60d nails that are at least 8 inches long, together with a 3/8\" fender washer (cheaper when purchased in boxes!). We hammer these in through the grommet holes to keep the floor tarps down all week. To remove them twist them a few times with a vice grips and either pull them out or use a claw hammer if needed to level them up. Floor tarps get folded up carefully and held closed with bungie cords so they don\'t spill their contents. We clean them at home.\r\n\r\nI always bring a collection of tools and materials, fasteners, rope and spare parts and supplies for mission-critical components. I bring extra fuses and the replacement ends to repair extension cords, and on and on. I bring WD-40 and glues and tape. I bring a hobby knife and spare blades, assorted wrenches and hand tools. I think about how things fail and what kinds of things I\'m willing to try to repair on the playa. I bring a modest collection of tools -- what will fit in one toolbox, together with my electronics tools in another toolbox that I use for my camp\'s main service. I keep these tools in what we call our \"garage dome\" which is a 1v dome at the back of our camp. A table there contains all the tools and materials and everyone in camp is welcome to use them. I label all the expensive or important ones with our camp name and location. They come back that way.\r\n\r\nBefore we leave I make sure I know approximately when people will arrive and I plan what work we might attempt each day. Some work can\'t be done until someone arrives with their components, so I try to ensure they bring things we don\'t need until later.\r\n\r\nOnce we\'re on playa I try not to ask people to work in the middle of the day. If the day is cool enough we might do some work, especially if it isn\'t strenuous. Many people are uncomfortable or lack energy on the second and third day they are on the playa. I try to encourage people to drink and rest and not to push themselves. My wife reminds me of the same things because I tend to want to work if I still have some energy. But the first few days can be hard and exhausting just to get the initial camp infrastructure deployed.\r\n\r\nWe break our camp down on Saturday, the day the Man burns. By the time the Man burns all of the camp\'s infrastructure has been broken down and loaded into two cargo vans. Camp members are welcome to stay longer, but the camp closes Burn Night and there is no more fence, shower, kitchen, shade, garage dome or anything aside from people\'s personal tents, bikes and cars. My wife and I leave the playa around 2am -- a few hours after the Man Burns. By then we\'ve been on-playa for eleven days and we\'re ready to go home.\r\n\r\nWe have a camp Decompression event every year to talk about what worked and what didn\'t. Sometimes they are not well attended because everyone is so busy when they return from the Playa, but we try to capture ideas while they are fresh in people\'s minds.\r\n\r\nI try to remember when I ask people to do things for the camp that everyone is a volunteer. I\'m not actually entitled to anyone\'s time or assistance for any particular thing. They do have a general obligation to the camp to \"help\" but that doesn\'t mean they have to do what I say when I say it. So, at most I try to make requests: never demands.\r\n\r\nI also try to say Yes whenever I can when people volunteer to do things. Unless I really need their help some other way, and unless it will create an LNT problem, and unless it is a violation of our social contract with Burning Man or is dangerously illegal, then my answer is probably going to be Yes.\r\n\r\nBased on recent experiences, I think I will add to my list of things to do to monitor the progress of art projects run by camp members to provide feedback on when to scale back or even cease work and go off and enjoy Burning Man. People, especially on their first big art project, will take on ambitious goals and struggle in the desert to meet them. I will often remind myself and others that nobody knows what it is supposed to look like. So, a project can be considered done at points other than just the form imagined by the artist. People can drive themselves to a point where they don\'t enjoy Burning Man at all, because of an obsession with a project. I\'ve tried the hands-off approach. It sucked for everyone involved. I think I will try something else next time.\r\n\r\n ','Camp Organizer\'s Notes','','inherit','open','open','','224-revision-7','','','2013-09-15 23:28:48','2013-09-15 23:28:48','',224,'http://nosefish.org/?p=231',0,'revision','',0),(232,1,'2013-09-15 23:53:09','2013-09-15 23:53:09','I\'ve operated the Nose Fish theme camp at Burning Man for ten years years. I wrote down some of what I do to operate the camp. I\'m not sure wh\n\nMy goal as camp organizer is to execute the camp\'s plans and leave no trace. Through the former I hope to help everyone in my camp fulfill our collective dream of providing a service and some art to our community. We love what we do together. It is still up to each camp member to plan and execute their own Burning Man experience. Their first duty to the camp is to be able to take good care of themselves so they can give from whatever excess time and energy they have.\n\nIn fact, I neither plan nor organize the camp myself. My wife contributes directly and indirectly and I would not be able to operate the camp without her. In fact, she has been with me every single year I accepted any responsibility for a theme camp. Our contribution is considered together -- together we operate the camp.\n\nOur camp has natural groups of 1, 2, 3 or more members. We recently started calling them \"pods\". Pods share responsibility and facilitate communication. They have a better chance of knowing the whereabouts and interests of other members of their pod. And, they are free to divide the tasks of their own Burning Man experience any way they wish, without informing anyone else of how they achieve the pods\' goals. Together they do and that is sufficient.\n\nMy camp uses a yahoo groups mailing list to reach each other. I use primarily email to reach the camp, but I often try to speak with new camp members over the phone.\n\nI plan for 40% failure. If I ask for help from five people, two won\'t show up, or won\'t be of much use. If bring the capacity to do or affect something, such as heaters, cookers, coolers, sprayers, etc., I overestimate our need by 40%, or underestimate the effectiveness.\n\nI plan transparently using Google Spreadsheets. Using different sheets in a workbook I list all of the things we will need in order to execute our shared infrastructure as well as my own Burning Man experience. I count things like sticks of rebar, tarps, and T-Stakes that will be needed. I create a drawing of the camp as a Google Drawing and add lines where power cables will need to be dug.\n\nIn fact, things are usually different once we arrive on the playa. The camp may be a different shape, or we may be adjacent to a road and such. For roads aside from our frontage we put up a trash fence with T-Stakes. We also try to light this so people can see it at night. We don\'t usually need a fence on other borders, but if neighbors stumble through our camp day and night we might. The one year we felt we needed a fence we also went out of our way to make a passage between our camp and the next so the camp behind us would have easy access. It wasn\'t hard -- we just chopped 10 feet of the side of our camp before we set it up and made sure our neighbors on the side didn\'t use that space. We lit the path too.\n\nWe like having our shade structure and kitchen really close to our frontage so people feel welcome to come into our camp. We like to have extra chairs ready for friends who drop by. In years when we put our shade further inside our camp people had to intrude or risk being thought of as intruders in order to even find someone in our camp.\n\nWe place \"Private Area\" signs on all of our tents, cars and private structures on the camp. This makes it clear to anyone who cares which areas are private and which are not. We do not expect privacy in our open shade structure right next to the road.\n\nWe use a Nose Fish Shower to capture our gray water. We treat most of it with a combination of filtration and bleach. Then we sprinkle it in camp. I ask people to process and sprinkle at least as much gray water as they produce. If this is a problem for someone, they can trade that job with someone else if the wish. Some people also just take their gray water home with them and dump it in a sewer: if you had room to bring the water, you should also be able to bring it home.\n\nWe have a role in our camp called \"LNT Guru\". The person in that role makes sure our recycling is separated based on how we are able to process it, and that garbage is separate from burnables, etc. That person\'s goal is to help the camp live up to our LNT commitment by enabling and encouraging it.\n\nWe use modified 1v domes as camp structures because they are easy to set up. The floor and horizontal ceiling struts are full sticks of 3/4\" EMT - 10 feet long (they just don\'t get cut). The 10 angled wall struts are cut to 8 and 1/2 feet and the five roof struts are cut to 9 feet. This makes big triangular doors you can walk through without bending over. Covering the sides is easy: a series of rectangles for the walls works fine. The roof is harder. You can use two or three large 12x16 tarps to cover most of it. Some people use tyvek or roadside advertisement sign vinyl where available. We used the latter and while it works well, it is very heavy and exhausting to work with. I like using the heavy-duty 12x16 tarps that can be purchased at CostCo in pairs for about $21 per pair.\n\nWe nail tarps into the playa under every dome and our kitchen structure. We use Glavanized 60d nails that are at least 8 inches long, together with a 3/8\" fender washer (cheaper when purchased in boxes!). We hammer these in through the grommet holes to keep the floor tarps down all week. To remove them twist them a few times with a vice grips and either pull them out or use a claw hammer if needed to level them up. Floor tarps get folded up carefully and held closed with bungie cords so they don\'t spill their contents. We clean them at home.\n\nI always bring a collection of tools and materials, fasteners, rope and spare parts and supplies for mission-critical components. I bring extra fuses and the replacement ends to repair extension cords, and on and on. I bring WD-40 and glues and tape. I bring a hobby knife and spare blades, assorted wrenches and hand tools. 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Many people are uncomfortable or lack energy on the second and third day they are on the playa. I try to encourage people to drink and rest and not to push themselves. My wife reminds me of the same things because I tend to want to work if I still have some energy. But the first few days can be hard and exhausting just to get the initial camp infrastructure deployed.\n\nWe break our camp down on Saturday, the day the Man burns. By the time the Man burns all of the camp\'s infrastructure has been broken down and loaded into two cargo vans. Camp members are welcome to stay longer, but the camp closes Burn Night and there is no more fence, shower, kitchen, shade, garage dome or anything aside from people\'s personal tents, bikes and cars. My wife and I leave the playa around 2am -- a few hours after the Man Burns. By then we\'ve been on-playa for eleven days and we\'re ready to go home.\n\nWe have a camp Decompression event every year to talk about what worked and what didn\'t. Sometimes they are not well attended because everyone is so busy when they return from the Playa, but we try to capture ideas while they are fresh in people\'s minds.\n\nI try to remember when I ask people to do things for the camp that everyone is a volunteer. I\'m not actually entitled to anyone\'s time or assistance for any particular thing. They do have a general obligation to the camp to \"help\" but that doesn\'t mean they have to do what I say when I say it. So, at most I try to make requests: never demands.\n\nI also try to say Yes whenever I can when people volunteer to do things. Unless I really need their help some other way, and unless it will create an LNT problem, and unless it is a violation of our social contract with Burning Man or is dangerously illegal, then my answer is probably going to be Yes.\n\nBased on recent experiences, I think I will add to my list of things to do to monitor the progress of art projects run by camp members to provide feedback on when to scale back or even cease work and go off and enjoy Burning Man. People, especially on their first big art project, will take on ambitious goals and struggle in the desert to meet them. I will often remind myself and others that nobody knows what it is supposed to look like. So, a project can be considered done at points other than just the form imagined by the artist. People can drive themselves to a point where they don\'t enjoy Burning Man at all, because of an obsession with a project. I\'ve tried the hands-off approach. It sucked for everyone involved. I think I will try something else next time.\n\n ','Camp Organizer\'s Notes','','inherit','open','open','','224-autosave','','','2013-09-15 23:53:09','2013-09-15 23:53:09','',224,'http://nosefish.org/?p=232',0,'revision','',0),(233,1,'2013-09-15 23:29:05','2013-09-15 23:29:05','These are some ideas for camp organizers. It is based on my experience running the Nose Fish theme camp at Burning Man for seven years. So, it is obviously just my opinion.\r\n\r\nMy goal as camp organizer is to execute the camp\'s plans and leave no trace. Through the former I hope to help everyone in my camp fulfill our collective dream of providing a service and some art to our community. We love what we do together. It is still up to each camp member to plan and execute their own Burning Man experience. Their first duty to the camp is to be able to take good care of themselves so they can give from whatever excess time and energy they have.\r\n\r\nIn fact, I neither plan nor organize the camp myself. My wife contributes directly and indirectly and I would not be able to operate the camp without her. In fact, she has been with me every single year I accepted any responsibility for a theme camp. Our contribution is considered together -- together we operate the camp.\r\n\r\nOur camp has natural groups of 1, 2, 3 or more members. We recently started calling them \"pods\". Pods share responsibility and facilitate communication. They have a better chance of knowing the whereabouts and interests of other members of their pod. And, they are free to divide the tasks of their own Burning Man experience any way they wish, without informing anyone else of how they achieve the pods\' goals. Together they do and that is sufficient.\r\n\r\nMy camp uses a yahoo groups mailing list to reach each other. I use primarily email to reach the camp, but I often try to speak with new camp members over the phone.\r\n\r\nI plan for 40% failure. If I ask for help from five people, two won\'t show up, or won\'t be of much use. If bring the capacity to do or affect something, such as heaters, cookers, coolers, sprayers, etc., I overestimate our need by 40%, or underestimate the effectiveness.\r\n\r\nI plan transparently using Google Spreadsheets. Using different sheets in a workbook I list all of the things we will need in order to execute our shared infrastructure as well as my own Burning Man experience. I count things like sticks of rebar, tarps, and T-Stakes that will be needed. I create a drawing of the camp as a Google Drawing and add lines where power cables will need to be dug.\r\n\r\nIn fact, things are usually different once we arrive on the playa. The camp may be a different shape, or we may be adjacent to a road and such. For roads aside from our frontage we put up a trash fence with T-Stakes. We also try to light this so people can see it at night. We don\'t usually need a fence on other borders, but if neighbors stumble through our camp day and night we might. The one year we felt we needed a fence we also went out of our way to make a passage between our camp and the next so the camp behind us would have easy access. It wasn\'t hard -- we just chopped 10 feet of the side of our camp before we set it up and made sure our neighbors on the side didn\'t use that space. We lit the path too.\r\n\r\nWe like having our shade structure and kitchen really close to our frontage so people feel welcome to come into our camp. We like to have extra chairs ready for friends who drop by. In years when we put our shade further inside our camp people had to intrude or risk being thought of as intruders in order to even find someone in our camp.\r\n\r\nWe place \"Private Area\" signs on all of our tents, cars and private structures on the camp. This makes it clear to anyone who cares which areas are private and which are not. We do not expect privacy in our open shade structure right next to the road.\r\n\r\nWe use a Nose Fish Shower to capture our gray water. We treat most of it with a combination of filtration and bleach. Then we sprinkle it in camp. I ask people to process and sprinkle at least as much gray water as they produce. If this is a problem for someone, they can trade that job with someone else if the wish. Some people also just take their gray water home with them and dump it in a sewer: if you had room to bring the water, you should also be able to bring it home.\r\n\r\nWe have a role in our camp called \"LNT Guru\". The person in that role makes sure our recycling is separated based on how we are able to process it, and that garbage is separate from burnables, etc. That person\'s goal is to help the camp live up to our LNT commitment by enabling and encouraging it.\r\n\r\nWe use modified 1v domes as camp structures because they are easy to set up. The floor and horizontal ceiling struts are full sticks of 3/4\" EMT - 10 feet long (they just don\'t get cut). The 10 angled wall struts are cut to 8 and 1/2 feet and the five roof struts are cut to 9 feet. This makes big triangular doors you can walk through without bending over. Covering the sides is easy: a series of rectangles for the walls works fine. The roof is harder. You can use two or three large 12x16 tarps to cover most of it. Some people use tyvek or roadside advertisement sign vinyl where available. We used the latter and while it works well, it is very heavy and exhausting to work with. I like using the heavy-duty 12x16 tarps that can be purchased at CostCo in pairs for about $21 per pair.\r\n\r\nWe nail tarps into the playa under every dome and our kitchen structure. We use Glavanized 60d nails that are at least 8 inches long, together with a 3/8\" fender washer (cheaper when purchased in boxes!). We hammer these in through the grommet holes to keep the floor tarps down all week. To remove them twist them a few times with a vice grips and either pull them out or use a claw hammer if needed to level them up. Floor tarps get folded up carefully and held closed with bungie cords so they don\'t spill their contents. We clean them at home.\r\n\r\nI always bring a collection of tools and materials, fasteners, rope and spare parts and supplies for mission-critical components. I bring extra fuses and the replacement ends to repair extension cords, and on and on. I bring WD-40 and glues and tape. I bring a hobby knife and spare blades, assorted wrenches and hand tools. I think about how things fail and what kinds of things I\'m willing to try to repair on the playa. I bring a modest collection of tools -- what will fit in one toolbox, together with my electronics tools in another toolbox that I use for my camp\'s main service. I keep these tools in what we call our \"garage dome\" which is a 1v dome at the back of our camp. A table there contains all the tools and materials and everyone in camp is welcome to use them. I label all the expensive or important ones with our camp name and location. They come back that way.\r\n\r\nBefore we leave I make sure I know approximately when people will arrive and I plan what work we might attempt each day. Some work can\'t be done until someone arrives with their components, so I try to ensure they bring things we don\'t need until later.\r\n\r\nOnce we\'re on playa I try not to ask people to work in the middle of the day. If the day is cool enough we might do some work, especially if it isn\'t strenuous. Many people are uncomfortable or lack energy on the second and third day they are on the playa. I try to encourage people to drink and rest and not to push themselves. My wife reminds me of the same things because I tend to want to work if I still have some energy. 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I\'m not actually entitled to anyone\'s time or assistance for any particular thing. They do have a general obligation to the camp to \"help\" but that doesn\'t mean they have to do what I say when I say it. So, at most I try to make requests: never demands.\r\n\r\nI also try to say Yes whenever I can when people volunteer to do things. Unless I really need their help some other way, and unless it will create an LNT problem, and unless it is a violation of our social contract with Burning Man or is dangerously illegal, then my answer is probably going to be Yes.\r\n\r\nBased on recent experiences, I think I will add to my list of things to do to monitor the progress of art projects run by camp members to provide feedback on when to scale back or even cease work and go off and enjoy Burning Man. People, especially on their first big art project, will take on ambitious goals and struggle in the desert to meet them. I will often remind myself and others that nobody knows what it is supposed to look like. So, a project can be considered done at points other than just the form imagined by the artist. People can drive themselves to a point where they don\'t enjoy Burning Man at all, because of an obsession with a project. I\'ve tried the hands-off approach. It sucked for everyone involved. I think I will try something else next time.\r\n\r\n ','Camp Organizer\'s Notes','','inherit','open','open','','224-revision-8','','','2013-09-15 23:29:05','2013-09-15 23:29:05','',224,'http://nosefish.org/?p=233',0,'revision','',0),(238,11,'2014-08-06 12:11:28','2014-08-06 12:11:28','Nose Fish will again provide multiple activities as in past years. By day we will be serving coffee to the City’s early risers (Tues-Friday – served Playa-time). Our coffee service is an interactive experience whereby caffeinate-ees are greeted by our own camp coffee greeter who helps each drinker uses our materials to create a piece of recyclable artistic “currency” for their coffee.\r\n\r\nFrom 3-5 in the afternoon Tues-Thurs, we will provide costume and vehicle EL wire repair clinic. For many years, we’ve helped get their costume art working. We can provide a wide range of advice on matters electronic and mechanical.\r\n\r\nAt night, we’ll run the interactive MEZ – Experience yourself transformed into an eerie surreal rendering of space, time, and color in our MEZ Video Mirror.\r\n\r\nYou can find us this year at 6:00 and Rod\'s Road, remember to bring your own cup!','Nosefish 2014 giving coffee and light!','','publish','open','open','','nosefish-2014-giving-coffee-and-light','','','2014-08-06 12:12:27','2014-08-06 12:12:27','',0,'http://nosefish.org/?p=238',0,'post','',0),(240,11,'2014-08-06 12:11:28','2014-08-06 12:11:28','Nose Fish will again provide multiple activities as in past years. By day we will be serving coffee to the City’s early risers (Tues-Friday – served Playa-time). Our coffee service is an interactive experience whereby caffeinate-ees are greeted by our own camp coffee greeter who helps each drinker uses our materials to create a piece of recyclable artistic “currency” for their coffee.\r\n \r\nFrom 3-5 in the afternoon, we will provide costume and vehicle EL wire repair clinic. For many years, we’ve helped get their costume art working. 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